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Mike Mead

Written by Mike

May 26, 2014

Linux

Website load testing with Apache Bench

For basic website load testing Apache Bench is a fantastic tool that is easy to use and can be integrated into your build/deployment processes. It is not limited to testing Apache webservers and can be used with any website.

Mike Mead

Written by Mike

Jun 9, 2013

Hosting

Why 100% uptime is a myth

100% Uptime: We have all heard of it and we all (rightly) strive to achieve it. The services we provide are key to the success of our businesses and therefore we want them to be constantly available.

Mike Mead

Written by Mike

Sep 17, 2012

AWS

Auto-Scale Ghost Instances (AWS EC2)

Over the past week I have been testing Amazon’s AWS EC2 Auto-scaling with a few custom AMIs. Early today as I was cleaning up the auto-scaling configuration I encountered a bit of a conundrum – the auto-scaling API was returning a few instances that did not exist and was stopping me from removing an auto-scaling-group. After hitting Google I wasn’t any wiser, but it seemed that I did not dismantle my test setup properly, which was most likely causing the problem.