Date Posted:09-03-2017 There are multiple ways to perform load testing of webserver and websites. Most commonly used load testing are jmeter and ab benchmarking testing. We are going to explain on how to perform ab benchmarking load testing on a website. Assumption: We will perform ab benchmark testing on Ubuntu… Continue Reading Ab Benchmark utility to perform Load Testing

Date Posted:05-03-2015 This post explains on how to redirect all http request to https on nginx server which are behind load balancer. Assumption: Ubuntu or Centos Nginx Webserver- If nginx is not installed on the serer, refer the following URL to install. Implementation: Let’s assume that the server has only… Continue Reading Redirect http to https on nginx behind load balancers

Date Posted:03/03/2017 One of our VM didnt come up and we tried to restart network service and we get the following below error. Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization Normally, this error occurs when there is a mismatch of mac address in the network configuration file… Continue Reading Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization

Date Posted:06-01-2017 In many scenario, we don’t want particular page to be crawled by bots or we want page to be restricted for particular users. In this post, we gonna explain on how to add authorization page on nginx webserver. Incase, if the server doesn’t have nginx installed, please follow… Continue Reading Enable Authorization(password protected) page on nginx – Ubuntu

This post covers 2 section which helps to boost the website performance. As we know, nginx is fast webserver and we are going to improve the performance by tweaking few more parameters on nginx. If the server doesn’t have nginx installed then follow the post . Assumption: Nginx webserver Centos or… Continue Reading Enable Expires Headers, gzip compression on nginx

In this post, we are gonna explain on how to install nginx, Php, Mariadb on Ubuntu 16.04.1. We have used AWS ubuntu server on this article.  apt-get install nginx Start the nginx service. systemctl start nginx Enable the service on startup so that it will get automatically started whenever the… Continue Reading Install Nginx, Php, MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04.1

In this post, we are gonna explain how to establish tunnel between local machine to your server. The following are the few use cases. When any application/domain is restricted particularly to the network. When you want to open the application/domain which is in private network. If you are looking to… Continue Reading Tunnel Setup on Windows without VPN

We have been roaming here and there to find a way to implement a chat application on our own network. Finally, figured out a way to implement the same on our network. The solutions which we described below can be used over the internet and it can be used within… Continue Reading Deploy your own chat application on network

I have been trying to find a way to install boto library on my windows machine. Since, windows command line is bit hard for me, I don’t know where the pip installer.  Python installer came with pip package by default and we don’t need to install it again. Here is the… Continue Reading Install Boto on Windows

In this post, we are going to explain on how to take mysqldump of individual table for all the databases. As a bonus, we will add feature to store the dumps to s3(with Versioning) and encrypt the backup. Prerequisites: s3cmd command on linux machine. Mysql Root Password S3 Bucket name… Continue Reading Script to take tablewise mysqldump and store in s3