Tour/Members area Monitoring Services and Software
 

can anyone here recommend a good tour monitoring software? for example it would hit/load the tour every say 30 secs to a min and tell me the load time. i want something similar for the members area. or should i just write something like that myself? well, my dev guy anyhow, not me. it would either em,ail me or sms me with troulbe issues or if a load time threshold was burst.

also, whats a good otimizer tool for dynamic php pages with alot of includes?

thanks

airek

wusage does a pretty good job, urgin is also a good stats package.

regarding php, here's a few pointers.
combine sql queries into big queries instead of lots of seperate small queries,
use table indexes, check with the mysql client to see the performance of your
queries, avoid slow queries, in my.cnf the mysql config file reduce the timeout
settings so connections get closed within a few seconds, if you have lots of
queries use mysql_pconnect (persistent connection). cache queries especially
if the results are always the same. check the html output, make sure it's
compliant, closing tags properly reduces rendering

compile your php pages with Zend SafeGuard, only use apache modules that
you really use, remove all the other modules

:2 cents:

I would say use a 3rd party. Its alot easier as they have the monitoring servers already set up on different networks and at various locations.

www.servergenius.com

i am sure he can set his monitoring up for your members area

we use him for my shit, and his shit rocks

Thanks Jace :thumbsup Yes I sure can if you have questions hit me up and
we'll discuss what we can do for you.....no strings attached :winkwink:

it sounds to me like you have a CMS like mine that dynamically builds the tour and members area pages - for moderate traffic it's not a problem - heavier traffic it is. i'm going to get mine re-coded to re-build static pages each time new content is added to the CMS.

reducing the amount of queries by combining multiple queries into 1 makes a BIG
difference and get a caching layer :thumbsup

yeah thats exactly what i've got goin. looks like it could bea dns calling issue. got it fixed now, but i want to make sure we keep an eye on it. slow tours blow ass.

thanks everyone for the input. i appreciate it.

dyna, i'll hit you up in a bit, i need to eat and run some errands. :thumbsup

you should ask the guys at http://www.prodinix.com the lead programmer is a one of the best out there

:winkwink: :winkwink:

he inspired me to learn enough to be able to talk about what i need intelligently. now im even setting up my own sites and shit. :)

spritian is the man.

If I'm not online anymore (it's 11:45pm here now) shoot me an email
to genius (a) servergenius.com with servergenius as the subject line so it
won't get lost.

Thanks!

np man. you got it.

Yes I agree. Very helpful guy who really knows his stuff. :)

Thanks for the props :thumbsup

offtopic: what happened to these fellas, they used to be all over GFY sometme ago. :error

yo dyna i got another referrral for you on this too.

What you are looking for is a software that messures the time it takes to load, not if the site is up or not right ? We use 3rd party to do it. One company we use charges us 10K/Month but clients pays for it so its ok. If you need any more info hit me up at [email protected]

Jay

we are launching joinformwatcher.com as a free service of IPalert soon. it is sexy - has ajax sexiness and multiple noc sexiness.

hit me for a beta and we'll get you setup this week.