I’ve decided that I need to up my game when it comes to webservers. However I’m not yet ready to switch to Nginx or one of the other webservers out in the wild as I need something up and running rapidly. Granted the …
So recently I’ve been working with PHP 5.4 a LOT. Unfortunately Ubuntu (my main dev environment) is behind the times. So I’m resorting to compiling PHP manually. Not a daunting as it may first appear. The really tricky …
Rsync is a great tool but can be a pain if you have to jump through hoops to connect via ssh such as connecting via a different port. A simple solution is to use the -e flag (also knows as –rsh=COMMAND). This flag allows …
I recently had to do some load testing for a site recently that would allow me to test in excess of 100k requests in a 60 second period… So I decided to do some testing using JMeter as it seemed like a suitable tool for …