I have been working with Nginx and Varnish for a good little bit. They are both obviously great proxy servers. The question that I have asked myself and others over this time is which should I actually use? Which performs…
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…
Recently, I have been adding varnish to some of my websites to improve their performance. But in the end, how do I know if varnish is helping or not, or if it is helping, can varnish help more? Obviously you…
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…
I mentioned in another article (Speed Up Your Webpage with Varnish) some of the benefits of Varnish Cache. It provides excellent caching and proxying which can provide a nice performance boost for your website. Another benefit in varnish cache is…
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,…
There are many ways to Install Nginx on your CentOS machine, but whenever possible, I will try to install using a repository and yum whenever possible. If you wish to install Nginx, there are a couple of different repos that…
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…
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…
Apachebench Bench Marking – How Fast is my Webpage? Before you deploy your website for the masses, you may want to performance tune it to make it run faster and serve more users. A simple tool that you can use…