<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>RDR-IT - Optimization</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/optimization/</link><description>System administration, virtualization, security and tools for IT professionals.</description><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:23:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/optimization/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Debloat Windows 11: Clean up the installation with PowerShell and MDT</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/debloat-windows-11-clean-up-the-installation-with-powershell-and-mdt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/debloat-windows-11-clean-up-the-installation-with-powershell-and-mdt/</guid><description>Learn how to streamline Windows 11 during deployment with MDT by using a PowerShell script to remove unnecessary applications. A complete tutorial for an optimized system …</description></item><item><title>Nginx: Configure the Fastcgi cache with WordPress</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/nginx-configure-the-fastcgi-cache-with-wordpress/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/nginx-configure-the-fastcgi-cache-with-wordpress/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to configure the Fastcgi cache with WordPress to put the pages generated with PHP in order to increase the speed of a …</description></item><item><title>Docker: Clean up and free up disk space</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/docker-clean-up-and-free-up-disk-space/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/docker-clean-up-and-free-up-disk-space/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to clean up Docker to free up disk space on your server or computer.
Even though Docker container images don’t necessarily …</description></item><item><title>Windows Update: Optimizing update distribution</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-update-optimizing-update-distribution/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-update-optimizing-update-distribution/</guid><description>Presentation of Distribution Optimization Since Windows 10 and available on Windows Server 2019, it is possible to optimize the distribution of Windows updates by using a …</description></item><item><title>Ubuntu 20.04: add swap space</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-20-04-add-swap-space/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-20-04-add-swap-space/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to add swap space on Ubuntu 20.04 and above.
A swap space on Linux is a location on the disk, which allows the OS to load …</description></item><item><title>Exchange: optimize database space</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/exchange-optimize-database-space/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/exchange-optimize-database-space/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to optimize the disk space used by the databases (MailboxDatabase) of Exchange.
What you need to know is that the size of Exchange …</description></item><item><title>Nginx Reverse proxy: cache configuration</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/nginx-reverse-proxy-cache-configuration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/nginx-reverse-proxy-cache-configuration/</guid><description>After seeing how to use Nginx as a reverse proxy , I will explain in this tutorial how to configure the caching of static elements (image, css files, js ….).
The use of …</description></item><item><title>Windows 10 : Choose the graphics card for software</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-10-choose-the-graphics-card-for-software/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-10-choose-the-graphics-card-for-software/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to select the graphics card that will be used on software on Windows 10.
This manipulation is to be done mainly on laptops which are …</description></item><item><title>WSUS : recreate the SUSDB database</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/wsus-recreate-the-susdb-database/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/wsus-recreate-the-susdb-database/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to reset the WSUS service by recreating the SUSDB database on WID (Windows Internal Database) and the updates storage folder …</description></item><item><title>WP Rocket : cache plugin for Wordpress - Installation - Configuration - Test</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/wp-rocket-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-installation-configuration-test/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/wp-rocket-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-installation-configuration-test/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to install and configure the WP Rocket plugin on Wordpress.
Introducing WP Rocket WP Rocket is a paid plugin for Wordpress which …</description></item><item><title>GLPI : use Redis to optimize performance</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/glpi-use-redis-to-optimize-performance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/glpi-use-redis-to-optimize-performance/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will tell you about GLPI and optimization in order to get it in faster.
I discovered quite by chance that GLPI is intended to use Redis …</description></item><item><title>Query Monitor: Analyze and optimize your WordPress site</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/query-monitor-analyze-and-optimize-your-wordpress-site/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/query-monitor-analyze-and-optimize-your-wordpress-site/</guid><description>In this article, I will tell you about the Query Monitor plugin for WordPress, which will allow you to (re) take control of WordPress sites by analyzing behavior and …</description></item><item><title>Windows Server: DNS enable zone cleaning</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-server-dns-enable-zone-cleaning/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-server-dns-enable-zone-cleaning/</guid><description>In this "how to" tutorial, I will explain how to enable DNS zone cleanup on Windows Server.</description></item><item><title>Veeam: change the location of the logs</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/veeam-change-the-location-of-the-logs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/veeam-change-the-location-of-the-logs/</guid><description>Introduction Veeam backup software writes a lot of logs and they are stored by default on drive C at the following location C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup.
As you can see in …</description></item><item><title>SQL Server: reduce the size of the transaction log</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sql-server-reduce-the-size-of-the-transaction-log/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sql-server-reduce-the-size-of-the-transaction-log/</guid><description>In this “troubleshooting” tutorial, we will see how to reduce the transaction file (ldf) of a SQL Server database.
Normally this file is truncated during server backups …</description></item><item><title>Veeam: Resolving the Volume Problem of Backups on Deduplicated Servers</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/veeam-resolving-the-volume-problem-of-backups-on-deduplicated-servers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:31:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/veeam-resolving-the-volume-problem-of-backups-on-deduplicated-servers/</guid><description>Symptom On Windows servers with deduplication enabled, at regular intervals the backup size is increased.
Below are several screenshots showing the problem:
Reason The …</description></item><item><title>WSUS: maintenance and optimization</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/wsus-maintenance-and-optimization/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/wsus-maintenance-and-optimization/</guid><description>Intro In this tutorial, I will explain how to maintain and optimize the installation of your WSUS service to keep it in optimal operating condition.
If your WSUS console …</description></item></channel></rss>