MySQL Stress Test tool

Written by smanne from http://debianzone.org/ on April 23rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Recently we moved a client from virtual host to amazon ec2 3 tier architecture then we thought of providing benchmark test report to show the Improvement, then we searched for simple straight forward tools, but we haven`t found, then I started to write a java code to benchmark by stressing mysql server.
It performed well, so [...]

Script to start a instance in amazon ec2

Written by smanne from http://debianzone.org/ on April 6th, 2010 | 0 Comments

This script is used to start a instance in ec2, you can extended this script in the way you want, we keep on posting new scripts to work with ec2

#!/bin/bash

export EC2_HOME=/home/sandeep/ec2/ec2-api-tools-1.3-46266
PATH=$EC2_HOME/bin:$PATH
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/home/sandeep/ec2/pk-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem
export EC2_CERT=/home/sandeep/ec2/cert-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem
export EC2_URL=https://us-east-1.ec2.amazonaws.com
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/

export amiid="ami-0d5db264"
export key="xxxxsshkeyxxxx"
export zone="us-east-1d"
export id_file="/home/sandeep/ec2/keyxxx.pem"
export group="default"

#
# Start the instance
#
echo Launching AMI ${amiid}
${EC2_HOME}/bin/ec2-run-instances ${amiid} -z ${zone}
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Page level caching using nginx

Written by smanne from http://debianzone.org/ on March 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Many of our dynamic sites contain rarely updated content (ex. blog archive page). By adding nginx server as proxy server infront of your apache server you can server those pages like static pages instead of running the page for every request, this will boost your site speed from 50% – 400%.
We need apache, nginx to [...]