This is a great way to secure your webfolders on the webserver if you have a static IP-adress Internet access.

Put in this code below into a .htaccess file:

AuthName “Access only for webmaster”
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 12.345.678.90
</Limit>

Change 12.345.678.90 with your real IP-adress…

If you have a Wordpress install, put this code into a .htaccess file in the “wp-admin” folder. This will lock out all others than you.

By enabling gzip in .htaccess (only on linux/unix servers) you can save bandwidth and load time. Use the code below to insert into a .htaccess file in your website/blog/forum/etc. root directory.

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl|jpg|png|gif)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>

Check with your web host if you have this apache module enabled: mod_czip.c. It will compress the files for you so they are faster to send to the browser. This supposedly speeds transfer up 35-40%. Then file sizes drop 55-65%.

I have done it on this blog. Hopefully it speeds it up.