Category: Sysadmin
Find our articles for sysadmins: server optimization, configuration, monitoring, open source tools.
Linux servers: how to keep your servers up to date like a pro
Linux updates: risk or security? At LRob, we've chosen peace of mind. Find out how we maintain a clean fleet with simple, proven solutions.
Guide: Free IP reputation monitoring with Uptime Kuma and AbuseIPDB
Automatically check whether your IPs are blacklisted? Here's how, with free tools that can save you a lot of trouble!
Plesk and NGINX Reverse Proxy: Impact on performance
By default, Plesk uses NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache. But is this default configuration optimal? What is the impact on performance? To answer these questions as a web host using Plesk, I ran load tests on a Hetzner VPS (8 AMD Epyc cores) to measure the impact of enabling NGINX as a reverse proxy on overall performance. Context and configuration As part of this benchmark, I compared server performance by enabling and disabling NGINX. I also tested NGINX cache activation (and that changes everything!). The load tests were...