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Server Tools<\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazon Web Services<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

The easiest way to scale your website\/app<\/span><\/p>\n

New Relic<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Monitor your entire stack \u2013 php, python, mysql, more<\/span><\/p>\n

WebPageTest.org<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

An amazing, free web performance testing tool<\/span><\/p>\n

Pingdom<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Server uptime\/latency monitoring<\/span><\/p>\n

Monitor.us<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Server uptime\/latency monitoring<\/span><\/p>\n

Blitz.io<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Load testing tool<\/span><\/p>\n

Memcached<\/span><\/h5>\n

\u201ctop\u201d for memcached<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apache\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u2013 industry standard http server<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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mod_spdy,\u00a0mod_pagespeed,\u00a0mod rewrite cheatsheet,\u00a0worker vs prefork<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Varnish<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 reverse caching proxy<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Some useful VCLs:\u00a0set hit\/miss header<\/a>,\u00a0cache adwords traffic<\/a>,\u00a0prevent hotlinking<\/a>,\u00a0serve old cache on 5xx errors<\/a>,\u00a0block malicious bots<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Some useful tutorials<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Setup fail2ban to block malicious ssh login attempts<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

nginx<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

High concurrency webserver, also very useful as a reverse caching proxy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cloudflare<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Tough to summarize, hosted dns, reverse caching proxy with anti DoS features<\/span><\/p>\n

Paper Trail<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

convenient logging of system info<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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