Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There’s no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.
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This whitepaper is a continuation to the previously article, Nagios Howto: Notification Escalations, EventHandlers & Remote Service Monitoring With NRPE.
From the Nagios website, "Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program," however, this description is not as accurate as it could be. In it’s most basic state of configuration, Nagios is a fantastic tool for locally monitoring network devices and services.
You’ve got web hosting, great—but you have to ask yourself, what kind of hosting do you have? And is it the right kind of hosting?
Does your host provide a RAID1 shared hosting environment? Don’t know? Well, if they don’t, your just a hard drive failure away from being offline for up to 3-5 days, possibly longer, no kidding. The typical hard drive and OS repair at the leading data center, The Planet, takes up to 48 hours to complete, and then the work of restoring backups starts.
If you’ve ever moved anything into chroot before, then you probably feel confident that you could get Rails done in a couple of minutes. I thought I could, and I was wrong! However, after much head scratching, Googling, and pouring over the same log files about a thousand times, I have succeeded. The good news is that if you know the steps then you can make it all work in just a few minutes after all. (more…)
