Cloudflare has a small but vital tool which is somewhat hidden in the account called Health Checks / Health Check Analytics. These tools allow you to check the health of various IP addresses or hostnames. Monitoring any web application is vital, and the faster the…
rsync is a command line tool to transfer data between a source and a destination. A destination or source can be remote. Avoid the following: Use the following in the command: $ rsync -avAXEWSlHh /source /destination --no-compress --info=progress2 --dry-run Test using --dry-run, then remove this…
wget is a powerful command to copy files from one server to another. However when downloading large files the following commands will help you continue your work or allow you to shutdown the command window and return at a later stage. Example $ wget -bqc…
PHP-FPM is a FastCGI process manager that is used to handle high traffic on web servers. However, sometimes this service can cause high load on servers itself. In this article, we will discuss the best practices for tuning PHP-FPM to handle high traffic. PHP-FPM is…
There are several methods to analyse, repair and optimize tables for MySQL databases. Point 1 & 2 are not practical if you would like to do this to all databases on the server. So we will focus on point 3 with some very simple commands.
Rsync is a powerful, open-source tool that allows server administrators to efficiently synchronize files and directories between servers. It uses a delta-transfer algorithm, which only transfers the differences between the source and destination files, making it much more efficient than other file transfer methods. rsync…
Keeping your disks healthy is the number one method to prevent data loss. The commands below will assist with ensuring this does not happen. As always, taking backups, or at least having backups available is important to ensure your data is kept secure. You can…