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14 Dec Improving Website Performance with LiteSpeed

At the beginning of 2019, Hostinger decided to try LiteSpeed Web Servers (LSWS) as the main web server instead of Apache. LiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement for Apache with .htaccess file support.

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14 Dec GraphQL vs. REST: Which Is the Best for API Development?

API, the acronym for Application Programming Interface, is a software intermediary that allows two applications to communicate with each other. That could be a server, a client, or an app talking to a server. The timeline below illustrates how it has evolved over the years, and it lays a great foundation for how an API can be built. REST remains a popular tool for building APIs. However, in 2012, Facebook wanted something different than REST, and that is when GraphQL (Graph Query Language) was introduced.

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14 Dec Introducing Fireactions: Self-host your GitHub runners without a sweat

Scaling and boosting GitHub Actions runners is a must for those with high Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workloads. Self-hosting the runners is a great solution, but it’s complex and time-consuming. This inspired us to create Fireactions, an open-source orchestrator for GitHub runners.

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14 Dec Reducing the Energy Usage of a Website

Trends of the Website Energy Consumption The Internet uses roughly the same amount of electricity as the UK, one of the world’s largest economies. That is around 300 TWh/year. The trends of Internet growth actually show that by 2030, the Internet is projected to start using around 21% of the world’s electricity. Additionally, it is expected that global communication technologies will be responsible for more carbon emissions in 2025 than any country besides China, India, and the United States.

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14 Dec PHP 8.0: Introducing the New PHP Version

We’re thrilled to announce that PHP 8.0 is now available on Hostinger servers. This PHP version comes with new features and changes to provide the best possible performance for your web projects. Since this is a major update, we encourage all users migrating to the latest release to get familiar with the new changes which we will cover in this article.

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14 Dec 5 hot changes coming to WordPress 6.7

Since the final release is still being worked on, some of what you see here may not be what you will find on November 12. We also used the upcoming Twenty Twenty-Five theme when testing this new update, so some features we will discuss may not appear on other themes.

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