Server Optimization

How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing

This article covers how to set up a simple load balancer on a cloud servers with nginx. The tutorial covers setting up a round robin loadbalancer that can then direct site visitors to one of a set of IPs

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An Introduction to Load Testing — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Load Testing

In this article, we’ll talk about the server side of web performance optimization: how fast can your server respond to your user’s requests? We’ll review the general landscape of load testing, step through a plan to find your server’s maximum practical response rate, and discuss some options for open source load testing software.

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How To Change Your PHP Settings on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Change Your PHP Settings on Ubuntu 14.04

PHP is a server side scripting language used by many popular CMS and blog platforms like WordPress and Drupal. It is also part of the popular LAMP and LEMP stacks. Updating the PHP configuration settings is a common task when setting up a PHP-based website. This guide will show how to view the current PHP configuration settings of your web server and how to make updates to the PHP settings.

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How To Optimize Apache Web Server Performance — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize Apache Web Server Performance

Apache is an amazingly powerful and capable web server. In order to make initial setup as easy as possible, it comes with numerous modules pre-installed. This makes it a great choice for new projects when you need to quickly be productive, but as your site grows you may start to bump into performance problems. This tutorial will cover a few things you should do to optimize performance if you’re running Apache with your Django app.

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Docker Explained: How To Create Docker Containers Running Memcached — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

Docker Explained: How To Create Docker Containers Running Memcached

In this the cloud provider article, especially keeping in mind those who host multiple web applications (e.g. multiple WordPress instances, Python Applications, etc.), we are going to create docker images to quickly start running (on-demand) Memcached containers which can be operated individually. These containers, kept and secured within their own environments, will work with the application being hosted to help them get better and faster.

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How To Configure Apache Content Caching on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Apache Content Caching on CentOS 7

Caching is a method of improving server performance by allowing commonly requested content to be temporarily stored in a way that allows for faster access. This speeds up processing and delivery by cutting out some resource intensive operations. By creating effective…

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How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 18.04 (UBUNTU-18-04)

Memory object caching systems like Memcached can optimize backend database performance by temporarily storing information in memory, retaining frequently or recently requested records. In this guide, we will cover how to protect your Memcached server by binding your installation to a local or private interface and creating an authorized user for your Memcached instance.

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