Apache Benchmarking is a great tool for testing Apache performance on web servers, for example running the following bash command This will test 1000 connections (-n), limited to 10 concurrent connections (-c) on the website localhost [root@node1 ~]# ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1430300 $> Copyright 1996 Adam … Continue reading Apache Benchmarking

What is the difference between a restart and a graceful restart of a web server? During a normal restart, the server is stopped and then started, causing some requests to be lost. A graceful restart allows Apache children to continue to serve their current requests until they can be replaced with children running the new … Continue reading graceful restart of apache