scaling drupal – an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin
Great notes on some common scaling arrangements for web apps (focussed on Drupal, but applicable to other architectures).
#apache
ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server
ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server
Man page on “ab”, the Apache benchmarking tool.
Pound – Software Load Balancer
Pound – Software Load Balancer
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s).
Apache Web-Developer Server Suite for Windows including PHP, MySQL, ASP, JSP, Perl, SSL
Apache Web-Developer Server Suite for Windows including PHP, MySQL, ASP, JSP, Perl, SSL
Cool package for Windows boxes that installs Apache, PHP, MySQL, ASP, JSP, Perl etc, along with some management scripts and other bits and pieces.
cgi_buffer
cgi_buffer is a group of libraries (for Perl, Python and PHP) that automatically handle performance-improving HTTP features that most Web servers don’t implement (at least for scripts).
Apache module mod_proxy
Details on the Apache module for running as a proxy/cache.
Cache Tester
A page that allows you to generate pages with defined expiry/last modified headers to test a caching configuration.