Guest post by James Paden, Partner at Instrumental At Instrumental, we often talk about getting started with monitoring. In the past, we’ve covered the critical, but basic, metrics everyone needs on our Ultimate Monitoring Metrics Cheatsheet (many of which are gathered by out-the-box system and service monitoring). We also wrote the Quick-Start Guide to Monitoring […]
Set PHP realpath_cache_size ‘correctly’
September 6, 2016 by Hayden James Blog LinuxOver the last few months I’ve started enabling PHP realpath_cache_size and realpath_cache_ttl for the performance benefits. At the time I followed the settings I found here. It bugged me that I was blindly setting the size of the cache without actually know what and how much storage was being used. In this post I will show you […]
Best WordPress Cache Plugin: Cachify
August 31, 2016 by Hayden James Blog LinuxThis blog post was originally posted just over 2 years ago. WordPress Cache plugin options have changed a lot since then. As such, I’m updating this list of 5 best WordPress plugins. Three of the five listed have been replaced! Are you already using a Wordpress Cache Plugin? I’ve tried many WordPress caching plugins over the years and after much testing, I’m able […]
50 Top Server Monitoring & Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Solutions
August 25, 2016 by Hayden James Blog LinuxBack in 2014, I compiled a list of the top 20 server performance monitoring solutions. Largely because I already had a list saved locally for my own reference. Posting that list publicly was a great way to gain feedback and recommendations on other tools available. In fact, most of the companies listed below were not included in my initial top 20 list. […]
Avoid This When Tuning MySQL Query Cache for Performance
August 12, 2016 by Hayden James Blog LinuxOne of the most misconfigured MySQL performance features, is MySQL Query Cache Size. Just last month I was optimizing a web server with 32 gigabytes of RAM where the existing config had MySQL’s query cache size set to 4 gigabytes. The thought behind it seems to be that more is better. Since the server has free RAM available, setting MySQL Query […]