Sunday, September 5, 2010

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How To Make Your Firewall Really Safe

Posted under security

Experts say, 20-minute long broadband connection to Internet is enough for a malefactor to break into an unprotected PC. Just imagine what can happen if a corporate network is connected to the Internet without proper protection. Infected workstations and stolen intellectual property are the most predictable consequences but things can go even worse. Installing a [...]

Apache Server Performance

Posted under performance

Often we need to measure web server performance. There are various reasons for this, but the most frequent one is modification of configuration files. Quite often we look for ways of improving web server speed and performance: tuning up nginx, apache or lighttpd we can get a significant performance boost. But finally we come to [...]

Creating a Simple HTTP Ping Utility to Monitor Your Site Latency

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While surfing the web, I encountered a ready solution (written in Perl) that can be used to check websites’ latency. How to install: Install Net::HTTP, and copy the shell script to a suitable location.

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Dotcom-Monitor Launches IPv6 Performance Monitoring

Minneapolis, Sept. 8, 2008 – Dotcom-Monitor announced today that it is adding Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) monitoring to its external web-performance monitoring services. Using Dotcom-Monitor, companies and organizations deploying IPv6-enabled websites can now monitor website accessibility, availability and performance from an external user’s perspective. “IPv6 is the future of the Internet, and performance monitoring [...]