In this world of identity theft and protecting oneself from the internet fraud and hacking, it can be instructive to step back and take a look about what type of information our server is sharing about itself to anybody who…
With nearly every resource a business uses these days being served through a browser, every application is now a URL. If you find yourself in IT, some portion of your job may be just managing the growing list of URL…
In the old days, when you wanted to build a Linux DNS server, you would immediately go to Bind. More recently, however, other Open Source options have developed that store their records in SQL databases. Additionally, WebGUIs have been created…
A few articles ago, I wrote about using the “apachebench” or “ab” utility to benchmark your website (see: apachebench). Ab is a great tool, but since then, I have found and fallen in love with a new tool for benchmarking…
Using Varnish Caching and Proxy If you have a website with lots of static objects like http://uptimemadeeasy.com, then it is likely that you can save some performance by caching those static objects in a memory so that when they are requested,…
So, I encountered a situation the other day where we were having an issue with hosting some of our blogs. Without wanting to go into the issue too far, we wanted to simplify the setup of one of our websites…
If you don’t have a CDN and would like to improve the performance of some of your webpages, you can easily do it using Apache File Cache Module. Apache’s file cache module allows you to specify specific images and files…
Get Detailed Performance Information from Apache You may be looking for a microscope into your Apache httpd service to see how many users you have using it, get performance information, and see the current individual Apache httpd processes and what…
Alert Yourself of Cyber Attacks Ok, this article will not alert you to all cyber attacks, but I wrote this script to help me identify huge changes in traffic to my websites and while it isn’t perfect, it has done…
The Apache access log is one of the most important files that you can use to create reports on your visitor’s behavior to your website. I often use Awstats (See: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ) and other reports on my Apache access_log files. …
Use WordPress to Create Your own Website WordPress is a very simple content management system with extreme plugin support. Because it is so popular, you can get plugins and themes that can help you create nearly any simple website just…