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Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime.

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Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime..

How it works

The Pingdom service monitors websites and servers from multiple locations on the Internet, making sure that they are working. You can use Pingdom to monitor both your public and password-protected websites, your FTP servers, your email servers, and any other kind of service that should be accessible from the Internet.

If your site stops working, Pingdom will alert you immediately. Like a watchdog.

I signed up for the free account that monitors a single server.  We’ll see how well this works.

Cherokee web server vs Apache httpd web server

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Cherokee web server vs Apache httpd web server | Craig Strong.

Although I was impressed so far, the remaining challenge that Cherokee must live up to for me is it’s speed advantages. In the spirit of keeping things simple and to get a loose overview on performance advantages I thought I’d simply use ‘Zend Controller’ which is bundled with ‘Zend Server CE‘ to test how many requests per second both Apache and Cherokee could handle in turn upon my humble local virtual machine. From these tests I obtained the following results :

Apache Web Server Results

Apache requests per second on local VM

Cherokee Web Server Results

Moving from Apache to Cherokee Web Server

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Cherokee includes a web admin interface for configuring the server. To get that running you need to start it up on your server and then use SSH tunnelling to view in a local browser. So on your server run the following to start the Cherokee Admin deamon:

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cherokee-admin -b &

Then on your local machine, setup the SSH tunnel as follows:

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ssh-L 9090:localhost:9090 mysite.com -N

Now, navigate to http://localhost:9090 and log in using the username and password shown in the output on your server console. You should be greeted with the Cherokee Admin home screen!

Moving from Apache to Cherokee Web Server | Tweetegy.

SPINE

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SPINE is a webbased Content Management System, implemented in Perl and released under the GPL (GNU Public License). It requires a Unix flavoured webserver, a database (postgresql or mysql), a default Apache installation and mod_perl. It features mixed static/dynamic content, separated template and content administration, granular privileges, userfriendly URLs, plugins, … Check the features page.

via S P I N E – About – The backbone for your website.

Furnace — Haivision

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End-to-End IP Video. The Furnace™ IP video system provides a complete infrastructure for delivering secure video to every desktop and display within an organization. With the Furnace you can record any source, apply metadata, and deliver live or recorded content, or video on demand. The Furnace allows administrators granular control over the media within a facility and a harmonized experience for all users.

via Furnace — Haivision.

Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps

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This article illustrates the robust Apache Web server stack with 6 Apache server nodes (though 3 nodes is sufficient for following the steps outlined here) as well as 3 Linux Virtual Server (LVS) directors. We used 6 Apache server nodes to drive higher workload throughputs during testing and thereby simulate larger deployments

via Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps.

lighttpd fly light

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Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it’s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

via lighttpd fly light.