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10 Best Practices for Monitoring Apache Server Metrics

January 16, 2020

Apache HTTP Server is an open-source, cross-platform web server capable of running on Linux, Unix, or Windows environments. It’s often used in combination with Linux, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python. Apache currently powers around 40% of active websites, including those of Cisco and Apple. Apache offers a modular architecture, making it appropriate for different use cases. Apache’s … Read more 10 Best Practices for Monitoring Apache Server Metrics

Boost Your WordPress Performance with Top Monitoring and Optimization Tools

January 15, 2020

Optimizing your website for performance is one of the most important tasks you can undertake as a page owner. If your website is suffering from regular bouts of downtime, or just continuously running slowly, your users aren’t going to hang around. It’s important to implement tools and strategies that help ensure high performance levels across … Read more Boost Your WordPress Performance with Top Monitoring and Optimization Tools

5 Common Issues Slowing Down Page Load Time (And How to Deal With Them)

January 14, 2020

Being aware of how quickly your website’s pages are loading is crucial. Slow loading times upset existing users, increase bounce rates, affect search engine rankings, and have a serious impact on revenue. So tracking your site’s loading times, and understanding problems that affect the speed of your website, can be the difference between a failing … Read more 5 Common Issues Slowing Down Page Load Time (And How to Deal With Them)

Best Application Monitoring Tools 2020

December 6, 2019

As monitoring aficionados, our toolbox sports an embarrassment of riches, from configuration management to logging, and from synthetic transaction solutions to application tracing and monitoring. It could be argued that cloud-based application monitoring (or APM) tools are the most plentiful and, to a certain community of IT practitioners, the most essential, providing crucial information to … Read more Best Application Monitoring Tools 2020

7 Tools for Best PHP Performance

November 20, 2019

With an increasing number of programming languages in circulation, the range of application monitoring tools is growing. This guide will specifically address Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, and the key features and advantages of some of the best PHP performance tools available. Before reviewing the PHP performance tools, let’s first take a look at … Read more 7 Tools for Best PHP Performance

Alerting Tools for IT Infrastructure

November 19, 2019

Different IT infrastructure monitoring tools are designed to offer visibility into particular aspects of your overall IT system, including applications, servers, logs, and more. The overall quality of these tools can vary, from excellent products built for business use to more limited open-source software. Their alerting capabilities vary as well, with tools offering a range … Read more Alerting Tools for IT Infrastructure

RUM vs. APM – How They Work and Where’s the Difference

November 13, 2019

Real user monitoring (RUM) and application performance monitoring (APM) are two different but related methods of IT monitoring that share a goal: improved application performance. In this guide, we’ll break down the differences between RUM and APM, how each of them work, and their typical purposes. I’ll also explain how RUM and APM can complement … Read more RUM vs. APM – How They Work and Where’s the Difference

7 Tools and Extensions for Node.js Optimization

November 7, 2019

Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript-built platform developed in 2009 to help quickly build scalable network applications. It’s a server-side system that’s highly economical, being both productive and lightweight. As a non-blocking IO model that’s event-centric and driven, it’s well-suited to applications that are data-intensive and run at a multi-device level. Node.js offers a large library … Read more 7 Tools and Extensions for Node.js Optimization