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Articles, Configuration Management

More Salt Notes – Targeting Minions

by Jeff Staten • August 25, 2014 • 0 Comments
Use Salt to Manage all of your Salt Minions

In an earlier article (Puppet, Chef, and now Salt for Configuration Management), we discussed how to install salt for configuration management.  At the end of the article, we discussed running command on the minions using the salt command from the…

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Apache, Articles, Linux

What Personal Information Can You Get From Your Web Server?

by Jeff Staten • August 9, 2014 • 0 Comments
Look at the HTTP Response Headers for Your Webpage

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…

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Articles, Linux, Redundancy

Move Over Rsync, Unison is Better at Bi-Directional Syncing

by Jeff Staten • August 6, 2014 • 2 Comments

I installed a new redundant WordPress instance on two different VPS servers the other day.  One of my biggest worries with the new system was how would media images and files uploaded by the content editors on one of the…

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Articles, Linux

Managing Bash Processes in the Foreground and Background

by Jeff Staten • July 28, 2014 • 0 Comments

When you run a typical command from the shell, it will be run in the foreground.  You have to wait for the process to complete before you can type another command.  Some processes take time to complete and you can’t…

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Articles, Databases, MySQL, MySQL

Using the MySQL Binary Log

by Jeff Staten • July 24, 2014 • 0 Comments
MySQL Point in Time Recovery

Enabling and managing binary logging will make it more likely that you can recover your database to a specific point in time.  These point in time recoveries require proper backups as well as having your MySQL server instance configure for…

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Articles, Linux

Adjust Process Priority with Nice and Renice

by Jeff Staten • July 16, 2014 • 0 Comments
Set or Change a Processes Priority with nice or renice

In a recent article, we discussed how to end a running process ( See: Killing Linux Processes ).  Today we are discussing how to reprioritize or adjust process priority with nice and renice linux commands. Nice Value – Low or…

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Articles, Cloud, Nginx, Varnish, webpage, Website, WordPress

Nginx or Varnish Which is Faster?

by Jeff Staten • October 20, 2014
Nginx or Varnish Which is Faster?

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…

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Apache, Articles, webpage, Website

Make Easy, Memorable URLs for Your Users

by Jeff Staten • March 28, 2014

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…

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Articles, Monitoring, Performance, Varnish, webpage, Website

All You Really Need to Know About Varnishhist

by Jeff Staten • February 26, 2014
Varnishhist Gives a Great Report of What is Cached and What is Not

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…

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Apache, Articles, Linux, Performance, webpage, Website

Benchmark Your Webpage with Siege

by Jeff Staten • February 8, 2014
Benchmark Your Webpage with Siege

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…

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Articles, Varnish, webpage, Website

Monitoring the Varnish log with Varnishlog

by Jeff Staten • February 1, 2014
Varnish Can Seriously Speed up Your Webpage's Performance

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…

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