Server Optimization

How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing

HAProxy is an open source software which can load balance HTTP and TCP servers. In the previous article on HAProxy we configured load balancing for HTTP and in this one we’ll do the same for MySQL. All your MySQL servers have to be configured to perform Master-Master replication as load balancing involves both reading and writing to all the backends.

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How To Add NoSQL Queries to MySQL with memcached on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add NoSQL Queries to MySQL with memcached on Ubuntu 14.04

Memcached as a standalone server works as an intermediary in front of the MySQL client access layer and manages information only in the memory without an option to store it persistently. This makes it suitable for tasks such as caching the results of duplicate MySQL queries. In this article, memcached will be installed as a MySQL plugin and tightly integrated into MySQL. It will provide a NoSQL style access layer for managing information directly in regular MySQL InnoDB tables.

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How To Optimize MySQL with Query Cache on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize MySQL with Query Cache on Ubuntu 18.04

Query cache is a prominent MySQL feature that speeds up data retrieval from a database. In this tutorial, you will first configure MySQL without query cache and run queries to see the duration results. Then you’ll set up query cache and test your MySQL server with it enabled to show the difference in performance.

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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 Add Swap on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add Swap on CentOS 7

One of the easiest ways to make your server more responsive, and guard against out-of-memory errors in your application, is to add some swap space. This gives you the ability to increase the amount of information that your server can keep in its working memory. In this guide, we will cover how to create and enable a swap file on a CentOS 7 server.

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Installieren von Jenkins unter Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Installieren von Jenkins unter Ubuntu 20.04

Wenn es um die Bewältigung sich wiederholender technischer Aufgaben geht, ist es nicht immer einfach, gute Automatisierungslösungen zu finden. Mit Jenkins, einem Open-Source-basierten Automatisierungsserver, können Sie Aufgaben von der Erstellung bis zur…

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How To Optimize Nginx Configuration — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize Nginx Configuration

Nginx is a fast and lightweight alternative to the sometimes overbearing Apache 2. However, Nginx just like any kind of server or software must be tuned to help attain optimal performance. Here’s how to optimize Nginx configuration.

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