In this post I will go step by step through optimizing PHP and WordPress to reduce page load times and increase requests/second of your website. WordPress is used on over 42% of all websites on the global internet. Considering that there are over 1.1 billion websites this comes to over 460 million website using WordPress … Read more
Nginx is used as not only a web server but also as a reverse proxy with the ability to cache content. There are two types of proxy servers, forward and reverse. In this post, I will focus on setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy with caching content from back-end servers. What is a Reverse … Read more
In this guide, I will discuss Nginx ngx_http_proxy and ngx_http_upstream modules, which provide the ability to proxy connections to backend application web servers and provide load-balancing capabilities. This proxying ability allows Nginx to pass requests to upstream webs servers for the final processing of a web request. The ability to proxy requests to single or … Read more
In this post, I will go into details of installing AWStats with Apache web server for Monitoring and web server log analysis. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, FTP, or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from the command line and shows … Read more
Apache Web Server power over 30 percent of all websites. I believe the share is likely higher when you consider servers hidden behind corporation firewalls. This is a long way from its initial release in 1995. Based on its widespread use the Apache server logs provide invaluable information in understanding not only the incoming traffic … Read more
Monitoring services for uptime and performance is a crucial part of any organization’s day-to-day operations. Essentially since its inception, Apache Web Server (Apache HTTPD) has been among the three most popular web servers on the internet. It has been providing critical hosting services to hundreds of millions of web sites commanding a share of over … Read more
Server monitoring is the process of monitoring a server’s system resources like CPU Usage, Memory Consumption, I/O, Network, Disk Usage, Process etc. Server Monitoring also helps in capacity planning by understanding the server’s system resource usage as well as capacity to handle requests. Server monitoring software helps in automating the process of server monitoring. Monitoring … Read more