Tag Archives: apache

Apache – graceful restart

Apachectl restart is used in 98% of the cases that require a web server reboot. What not everyone knows is that we can use a command that doesn’t stop all the child processes and doesn’t lead to possible blocked user sessions. apachectl graceful will allow each child process to die peacefully. For an even more… Read More »

Measure web site latency with echoping

One excellent network monitoring piece of software is echoping. Syntax for a web server would be echoping -v -4 -h /code/ssl-cert-check tips4linux.com:80 For a mail server try this: echoping -v -4 -S mail.tips4linux.com Output data can later be viewed as an easy to read graphic by using smokeping.