Server Tools

Amazon Web Services

The easiest way to scale your website/app

New Relic

Monitor your entire stack – php, python, mysql, more

WebPageTest.org

An amazing, free web performance testing tool

Pingdom

Server uptime/latency monitoring

Monitor.us

Server uptime/latency monitoring

Blitz.io

Load testing tool

Apache – industry standard http server

mod_spdy, mod_pagespeed, mod rewrite cheatsheet, worker vs prefork

Varnish – reverse caching proxy

Some useful VCLs: set hit/miss header, cache adwords traffic, prevent hotlinking, serve old cache on 5xx errors, block malicious bots

nginx

High concurrency webserver, also very useful as a reverse caching proxy.

Cloudflare

Tough to summarize, hosted dns, reverse caching proxy with anti DoS features

Paper Trail

convenient logging of system info

2 Comments

  1. Hello,
    Would you be interested in promoting yourself (or your site) by writing an article for the PenTest Magazine?
    Our next issue is going to be about Metasploit and Backtrack.
    I think that you can contribute relevant materials for our magazine.
    Please let me know if you were interested in contributing.

    Cheers,
    Aleksandra Pawlak
    Editor of the PenTest Magazine

  2. Hi Aleksandra – I was planning to do an article on wpa/cloudcracker but wired beat me to it. Kinda seems pointless now. If I come up with an article idea I’ll hit you up.

    Thanks!

    Ryan

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