October 2008
Tools for Performance Tuning and Optimization | 2bits.com, Inc. - Drupal Development, Customization and Consulting
When tuning a site's performance, a system administrator needs certain tools to measure and monitor how the site is doing under increasing load, as well as identify where bottlenecks may be.
Linux system performance monitoring tools
On Linux, there are several tools available to you to do this. We describe what we have found as the most helpful in this section.
June 2007
Surviving 100,000 instant Visitors on a Budget
(via)Last Sunday I casually wrote a post about the most common pitfalls in photography. I had written the post a long time ago, but I never put it on this site.
The story ended up on the front page of Digg, stayed there for nearly 12 hours and was picked up by a bunch of secondary sources, resulting in 100,000 Visitors within a day (most of them within the first 12 hours). Trying to keep my server up and alive, I learned a lot about what it takes to keep the server alive, hence I decided to slide a non photography related post in, hopefully giving everyone who finds themselves in a similar situation some points to consider.
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