People who are familiar with me know that there are two things I’m not forgiving about. The first is backups, the second is security. If backups interest you, perhaps we can discuss it some other time. This time we’re going to discuss security. I’m going to outline in the following article some of the best… Read the full post

The MySQL database is a crucial part of a wide variety of products, particularly web applications. Naturally, it is very important to monitor the health status of MySQL.  However, there is constant disagreement on which of the many MySQL status variables provide the best overview on MySQL health status and indicate that something is not… Read the full post

  MONTREAL, July 22, 2011– Paid Monitor, the award-winning provider of the world’s first all-in-one cloud-based service that combines web site uptime, server and application monitoring, today announced the deployment of a new monitoring node in Canada. This will provide companies whose business relies on the Web, a complete and accurate performance picture from the perspective of… Read the full post

8. VMware ESX Server and VMWare Server (www.vmware.com) VMWare allows the ability for organizations to improve the efficiency and availability of their IT resources and applications through virtualization. The application helps to eliminate a “one server, one application” model and provides the ability to run multiple virtual machines on each physical machine. Pros Application has… Read the full post

6. Bochs (https://bochs.sourceforge.net) As an open source x86 emulator written in C++, Bochs is a user-space emulator that can emulate an x86 processor, several I/O devices, and a custom BIOS.

1. OpenVZ (https://wiki.openvz.org)

monitor.us recently launched something that we think is truly groundbreaking: Free Internal Server and Network Monitoring. Now users of monitor.us, the free web server monitoring service, can download our internal agents onto Windows and Linux servers and monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Load Average, MySQL, Processes, HTTP, Ping, and even SNMP, for free. Your server could… Read the full post

Monitor.Us recently launches something that we think is truly groundbreaking: Free Internal Server and Network Monitoring Software as a Service. Now users of Monitor.Us, the free web server monitoring service, can download our internal agents onto Windows and Linux servers and monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Load Average, MySQL, Processes, HTTP, Ping, and even SNMP, for… Read the full post