PHP FastCGI Process Manager (or PHP-FPM for short) is an daemon that remains resident in memory and processes requests relayed to it either using a
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Application Routing in nginx
Usually an application can handle its own routing. After all, the developers created the application so it stands to reason that they’ll know what URL’s
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Load Testing With JMeter (Part 3)
OK, so here we are. The home stretch. If you manage to complete this post you can officially consider “JMeter” part of your skillset and
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Load Testing With JMeter (Part 2)
In the previous post on this topic I showed you the basics of doing some things in JMeter. We basically got to the point where
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Load Testing With JMeter (Part 1)
JMeter is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) tool for automated load generation. It’s a tool that’s easy to install and
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VIP Management With keepalived
This post assumes a basic familiarity with High Availability concepts but makes no assumptions regarding practical implementation. For example, you should already be familiar with
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Using openssl to Operate Your Own Certificate Authority
Usually you don’t need to manage your own PKI infrastructure with OpenSSL. The normal modus operandi is to generate your CSR, get a recognized certificate
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PHP Session Clustering With Redis
For some applications, such as public websites, merely having several nodes that run the same PHP scripts is enough to consider your website load balanced.
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Speed Up Your Drupal Website With Redis
In a previous post I briefly went through getting a basic instance of Redis going and how at a code level you to store and
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