To stress test our servers we’re benchmarking them. By monitoring both the webservers and database we can tune our setup and see where the performance bottleneck is located. To properly test the website we need to take a “snapshot” from the requests that are performed on the webservers. To do that, we make a log [...]
Since we’re running our vbulletin software for myp2p on multiple servers, an nginx frontend balances the traffic. We have a memcached cookie sync for session persistance with the following php.ini configuration lines: ?View Code PHP1 2 3 [Session] session.save_handler = memcache session.save_path="tcp://<memcache host>:11211?persistent=1&weight=1&timeout=1&retry_interval=15" Make sure to remove the old session.save_handler/path lines. The includes/class_core.php file needs [...]
We’ve had nginx logging disabled for some time now, for the gain of performance (no harddisk usage). Lately we’ve been interested in what is going on on our servers, without having to wait on the google analytics statistics. So we chose to figure out some logging. Nginx needs to be configured to be able to [...]
Last days I have been looking for a good proxy alternative. I now have one Dell PowerEdge server with 4 cpu’s as frontend to the myp2p.eu website. Behind that, there are 3 upstream servers. The frontend server needs to balance all connections. After some googling, I discoverend nginx (engine-x). Nginx is extremely flexible and light. [...]
