Progressive JPG images, as opposed to baseline JPG, will display right away in the browser, and will load bits of it in cycle, rendering it from blur to clear.

Progressive is known to provide a better user experience, preventing the ”fax loading” effect. Where the image is displayed in full, but sequentially from top to bottom.

The imagemagick package will install the convert command that you can run to convert JPG to progressive:

convert -strip -interlace Plane -quality 80 input-file.jpg output-file.jpg

For this configuration you can use web server you like, i decided, because i work mostly with it to use nginx.

Generally, properly configured nginx can handle up to 400K to 500K requests per second (clustered), most what i saw is 50K to 80K (non-clustered) requests per second and 30% CPU load, course, this was 2 x Intel Xeon with HyperThreading enabled, but it can work without problem on slower machines.

You must understand that this config is used in testing environment and not in production so you will need to find a way to implement most of those features best possible for your servers.

Grab all of the NRPE items via yum

yum install nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe
chkconfig nrpe on

update the config by checking allowed_hosts and

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.