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Cloud Services’ Popularity among Small Businesses.The Major Factors

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Jay

Recently it’s been found that around 80% of private businesses who are involved in foreign trade are small in size and startups.

Many of these are growing or looking to expand their company by choosing innovative solutions to provide better services to their customers.

Cloud computing can be a viable option for startup companies that can boost their business productivity.

The foremost reason to choose a cloud management service is to get the benefits of big business infrastructure. In the recent past, servers were configured in the office, which was troublesome and required a lot of resources like expensive.

Hardware, faster processors, dedicated server administrators, and 365×24×7 internet connection. To avoid such headaches, it is beneficial to opt for cloud-based computing power for more productivity at a lower budget.

As the servers are accessed remotely, it offers better flexibility than traditional IT infrastructures. The administrators can access remote servers from anywhere by using various mobile devices.

This flexibility in accessing the servers saves time, money, and also helps to fix issues immediately when required.

Cloud server monitoring also facilitates better collaboration with clients. It enables the company to share specific client-related issues with other departments, in order to solve the problem. Taking notes, sharing client files, and working together to solve the problem has become easier than before.

Data security is one of the most important reasons to use cloud management services.

The remote infrastructures provided by cloud service consider clients ‘data security’ as their top priority. Many people wrongly assume that cloud monitoring is less secure than native servers.

Due to this reason cloud server monitoring is managed by IT professionals who stress themselves to keep their data safe and out of the reach of hackers. But choosing cloud services can reduce these threats and the business can acquire various legal requirements regarding the security of data.

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How to improve your Apache Web server’s performance?

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Jay

The performance of web application depends upon the performance of the webserver and the database server.

You can increase your web server’s performance either by adding additional hardware resources such as RAM, faster CPU, etc. or you can get better performance on the same hardware through Cloud Management, by doing some custom configuration to the webserver.

Here are some custom configurations for better performances

Load only the required modules:

Apache server is a modular program which includes the functionality of selecting a set of modules. So it’s suggested to run Apache with only the required modules which will reduce the memory footprint and hence the server performance.

Choose appropriate MPM:

Apache comes with a number of Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) which binds the network ports to the machine. But only one MPM can be loaded at a time, so choose the appropriate MPM for your application. It depends on various factors like, whether the OS supports threads, available memory, scalability versus stability, whether non-thread-safe third-party modules are used, etc.

DNS lookup:

Keep “HostnameLookups off” to reduce latency to every request since the DNS lookup has to be completed before the request is finished.

AllowOverride:

Make “AllowOverride all” to reduce additional file system lookups.

FollowSymLinks:

Add the option ‘FollowSymLinks’ to make the server follow the symbolic links in the directory.

Content Negotiation:

Option ‘Multiviews’ scans the directory for files, which causes latency.

MaxClients:

‘MaxClients’ is the limit on maximum simultaneous requests. It should be set to low so that new connections are put in queue.

MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, and StartServers:

The ‘MinSpareServers’ and ‘MaxSpareServers’ determines how many child processes should be kept waiting for request. Now you can adjust it as your requirement.

Listed below are some tweaks to help you around

StartServers—2

MinSpareServers—2

MaxSpareServers—5

ServerLimit—100

MaxClients—100

MaxRequestsPerChild—4000

KeepAlive and KeepAliveTimeout:

The ‘KeepAlive’ directive allows multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection. This is useful when HTML pages use a lot of images.

KeepAlive–on

Timeout–20

HTTP Compression & Caching:

Use mod_deflate module for HTTP Compression. Most of the browsers are supporting it.

Separate server for static and dynamic content:

For dynamic contents Apache server needs 3M to 20M of RAM, while for the static contents it consumes only 1M. To reduce latency use separate servers for static and dynamic contents.

Reducing network load:

Use ‘mod_gzip’ to compress the data in order to reduce bandwidth. Most of the browsers are supporting it.