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THANKS Eric! Netdata is fantastic!

e.g. http://freephile.qualitybox.us:20000

Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Eric Chadbourne <sillystring at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> My God I love netdata.  https://github.com/firehol/netdata
>
> Eric Chadbourne
>
> ??????? Original Message ???????
> On April 6, 2018 1:01 PM, Eric Chadbourne <sillystring at protonmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Great links.  I was immediately able to provide grockable optimization
> advice.
> >
> > What about testing on the server itself?  For example vendors often hide
> CPU information in vague marketing terminology.  I was thinking maybe log
> the time periodically while running a few queries, do a bunch of file
> modifications, etc.  Then I could offer better advice to the client on
> which hosting service to use.  I love DigitalOcean but that's not a good
> enough argument.  Would this even be worth my time?
> >
> > How do you all recommend hosting providers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric Chadbourne
> >
> > ??????? Original Message ???????
> > On April 5, 2018 4:37 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg at freephile.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for that link Rajiv. Nice comprehensive tool that I had
> forgotten about.
> >>
> >> A lot of the info you can get from Google's [Speed Insights](
> https://developers.google.com/speed/), Chrome DevTools or [Firefox
> Developer Tools](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools).
> >>
> >> I use [Apache Bench](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html)
> for local testing and establishing a baseline before tweaking anything on
> the server.
> >>
> >> Not directly related, but there is also https://www.browserling.com/
> for testing different browsers.
> >>
> >> ~ Greg
> >>
> >> Greg Rundlett
> >> https://eQuality-Tech.com
> >> https://freephile.org
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Rajiv Aaron Manglani <
> rajiv at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> try https://www.webpagetest.org
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a client reporting performance issues.  We're utilizing two
> >>>> hosting companies.  I would like to generally see which performs
> better
> >>>> for hosting something like WordPress.  Does such a tool already exist?
> >>>>
> >>>> If not I was thinking of whipping up a little test script in PHP-CLI
> to
> >>>> make some basic tests.  What do you think?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Eric Chadbourne
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