Currently the Default character set or Collation for MySQL is still “latin1_swedish_ci” and it is so damn annoying. The original reason for this is because the creator of MySQL is Swedish, which is the same reason why Microsoft’s’ operating systems default language is English US. Some hosts may differ, but for the most part lets assume [...]
So you run your test on Gtmetrix and you notice a recommendation that says Avoid a character set in the meta tag and now you’re like, what the hell does that even mean? Gtmetrix says: The following resources have a character set specified in a meta tag. Specifying a character set in a meta tag disables [...]
Since PHP 5.3.9 a new php.ini option was added called max_input_vars. It is part of the run-time configuration and in most cases this won’t be a problem. But some users have found that when they are saving large amounts of data, nothing happens. Upon enabling Display errors they find this is being outputted each time [...]
If you have a reasonably powerful server then the chances are your probably not getting the most out of it. This is more so important for sites that have a lot of consistently heavy traffic. You can have all the resources in the world, but if Apache doesn’t reflect that then your wasting your money, [...]