dstat command in Linux w/ examples

January 12, 2022 by , in Blog Linux

This dstat command guide follows my previous 90 Linux Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins article. As time allows, I will continue to publish articles on around the 90 commands geared toward Linux sysadmins and Linux power users. Let’s continue this series with the dstat command. Dstat is used for generating system resource statistics. It is a versatile […]

25 Best CDN Providers 2022

January 5, 2022 by , in Blog Linux

A content delivery network also referred to as a content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of data centers containing proxy servers. CDN providers serve internet content, including web objects (text, graphics, and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, to name closer to and thus faster, to end-users. Some of […]

30+ Log4j vulnerability solutions, tools and resources

December 20, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

In August 2021, the article “Observability in 5 minutes” said: “Cybersecurity, as we discussed last time, will dominate news headlines in the coming months. As such, along with adding context to collected telemetry data, security will emerge as an instrumental component of observability.” Over the past year, some of those listed observability software vendors have […]

Linux Performance: Why You Should Almost Always Add Swap Space

December 2, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

We know that using Linux swap space instead of RAM (memory) can severely slow down performance. So, one might ask, since I have more than enough memory available, wouldn’t it better to delete swap space? The short answer is, No. There are performance benefits when swap space is enabled, even when you have more than […]

uptime command in Linux

November 17, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

This uptime command guide is a follow-up to my previous 90 Linux Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins article. As time allows, I will continue to publish articles on these 90 commands geared toward Linux sysadmins and power users. Let’s continue this series with the uptime command. The uptime outputs the current time, system uptime, number of logged-in […]

btop – the htop alternative

November 3, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

Meet btop, an aesthetically pleasing system resource monitor showing usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network, and processes. btop is the lighter and faster C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop. Over the years, the available options for command-line system monitoring tools have grown quite a bit. There is top, htop, glances, nmon, ytop, gtop, vtop, and […]

MySQL Database Performance: Avoid this common mistake

November 1, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

One frequent topic of support request emails I receive is MySQL database performance. Clients complain about MySQL using too much server memory, too many MySQL slow queries, the famous Mysql server has gone away error and many other MySQL performance-related issues. As such, I wanted to share the solution to a common MySQL configuration mistake. […]

Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than… (Solution)

November 1, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

A quick solution to the warning “Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than” when starting MySQL or MariaDB. For some background, read How MySQL Opens and Closes Tables. Here’s an excerpt: “The table_open_cache and max_connections system variables affect the maximum number of files the server keeps open. If you increase one or both of […]

50 Top ‘Internet of Things’ Security Solutions

October 25, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

A couple of months back, I decided to maintain a list of companies that offer IoT (internet of things) security tools and solutions which you can find below. Feel free to share your solutions, feedback, and tips for securing IoT devices. Going forward, I will update this list continuously. A few key questions arose after […]

78% of the web powered by PHP, 1% on PHP 8

October 21, 2021 by , in Blog Linux

Today, PHP is used by almost 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Slack, Etsy, Wikipedia, WordPress, Mailchimp, Canva, Indeed, Investing.com, and others are powered by PHP. However, in the coming months, many websites that fail to upgrade to the latest version of PHP 8 will be […]