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#6 System Monitoring With Monit

Monit is a great open source tool for keeping track of your server or system. Monit can make sure daemons are running, permissions are correct, remote servers are responding, and much more.

In this episode we'll show you how to configure Monit to monitor our webserver, Apache HTTPD, starting it back up after a crash, and emailing us an alert.

If you'd like to try other monitoring utilities check out God, which uses Ruby for configuration, and Reconnoiter, which has some very robust features.

Uploaded on Oct 10, 2009 | 10:52 | Tags: Apache Monit Nginx

#5 Command Line Tips #2

In this episode we continue the multipart series with some more of my favorite command line tips including a surprisingly little known cd argument, quickly searching the bash_history, a sudo tip, and how to temporarily start a tiny webserver so we can share files with a single command.

Uploaded on Oct 06, 2009 | 4:25 | Tags: bash cd python

#4 Command Line Tips #1

In this episode of a multipart series, we go over a couple of tips for the command line including Bash aliases and using pushd and popd to quickly traverse common directories.

Uploaded on Oct 02, 2009 | 5:56 | Tags: bash popd pushd

#3 Load Testing with Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter is a great tool to load test your web applications, API, and even databases.

In this episode, we go through how to record a short work flow with JMeter and use that to simulate load on a web application.

Uploaded on Sep 28, 2009 | 4:49 | Tags: Apache JMeter Load Testing

#2 Remapping CAPSLOCK and CONTROL

One of the best changes I've ever made to my computing work flow is swapping my CAPS and CTRL keys. It is much easier on your pinky to hit the CAPS key instead of the standard mapping for CTRL and the CTRL key is used exponentially more than CAPS. In fact, you will likely find that you completely forget about the CAPS key all together.

This is a very easy change to make and have a good effect on your computing for years to come. We'll go though how to do it In MacOSX, Ubuntu Linux, and any Unix/Linux system with Xmodmap.

Uploaded on Sep 25, 2009 | 3:11 | Tags: OSX Ubuntu Xmodmap

#1 Easy Nginx with PHP

Nginx is a great alternative to other webservers like Apache and Lighttpd. If you're looking for something with a bit less overhead and a bit more speed, give it a try.

We'll get Nginx compiled from source on Ubuntu 9.04 and get PHP playing nice with it.

Uploaded on Sep 23, 2009 | 11:43 | Tags: Nginx PHP

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