What do you use to monitor the uptime / performance of your websites, specifically those based on a PHP/MySQL platform like Wordpress? I'm looking for something that alerts me if the site is down, or performing too slowly, and has some useful (not volumeous!) charts showing me any potential problems, and what to do about them. Thanks! ...
I've now worked at a few tech companies ranging from 10 people to ~150 and I've never encountered a real DBA. How big does a company need to get before it merits getting a DBA? What are the criteria that need to be met? ...
The company I work for only has standard edition, and can not afford a pricey monitoring solution. And this is installed on windows 2003, IIS 6, Coldfusion 8. But we need a way to remotely look at performance of the coldfusion server, since perfmon can not send data remotely. And we don't want to put in tons of data into sql server, to...
I have installed Munin to provide some insight into server performance for a VPS server with some small rails and Sinatra applications. Is there a good resource for reading up on what to look for on the graphs Munin provides. Or a good resource on getting more details on specific measures (Fork rate, Swap in/out) - what they are tellin...