Server Optimization

How To Use Mytop to Monitor MySQL Performance — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Mytop to Monitor MySQL Performance

Mytop is an open source, command line tool used for monitoring MySQL performance. It was inspired by the Linux system monitoring tool named top and is similar to it in look and feel. Mytop connects to a MySQL server and summarizes the information in a useful format. Using mytop, we can monitor (in real-time) MySQL threads, queries, and uptime as well as see which user is running queries on which database, which are the slow queries, and more.

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How To Install and Use Memcache on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Memcache on Ubuntu 12.04

Memcache is a system that works to speed up virtual private servers by caching server information. The program allows you to allocate a specific amount of the server ram toward caching recently queried data for a certain amount of time. This tutorial covers Memcache installation and illustrates how to use memcache with a simple php script.

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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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How To Install WordPress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install WordPress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on the server itself if there is a need for an active process. This tutorial covers installing wordpress on a LEMP stack (with nginx instead of apache), and then installing varnish.

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How To Configure Apache Content Caching on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Apache Content Caching on Ubuntu 14.04

Web 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 allows the visitor to access content faster without having to fetch the same data multiple times. By…

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How To Use JMeter To Record Test Scenarios — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use JMeter To Record Test Scenarios

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to set up and use the Apache JMeter HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder to record HTTP requests. Recording HTTP requests is a great way to building test plans, and can be useful in creating tests that closely mimic a normal user’s behavior.

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How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck

Once an app has been deployed and more and more people begin using it, it won’t be long before you begin to notice it slowing down. This is a common problem, and in this tutorial we will go over some tools that work with Django which can help to alleviate this issue.

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