ContentsSummaryWhat is performance tuning in SQL?Follow these simple steps to optimize your database and its functions:1. Clean up your SQL 2. Find the garbage collection sweet spot3. Expect success when modeling your database4. Ongoing maintenance5. Check your hardware6. ColdFusion Server Monitor: Monitor your logs and metrics7. Load test as often as you can Summary Learn about […]
Server Tuning
ColdFusion Server Crashing – First 3 Steps to Fix it Fast
Has your site or app ever crashed, sending the IT department into a collective meltdown? Perhaps you’re running an e-commerce site whose customers can’t log in. Or a networking platform that’s suddenly off everyone’s network. Downtime and site maintenance can be costly resource hogs that draw your IT team’s attention away from other vital work. […]
4 Focus Areas for Best ColdFusion Server Optimization
Some people may believe that they have the best web server setup. It might run smoothly now, but what happens when it is fully loaded? Does your server still work at its very best? Probably not. What would it take to have better servers? “It was Nielsen I think that had a survey some years […]
FusionReactor 5 releases new features for ColdFusion server monitoring
If you haven’t checked out the recently launched FusionReactor 5 (www.fusion-reactor.com) you are in for a nice surprise with many new and improved features compared with earlier versions of the ColdFusion server monitor. At TeraTech we like using it for real-time server monitoring, to pinpoint issues and protect against server crashes. Some of FR5’s […]
Preventing and diagnosing ColdFusion server crashes and slow downs Thursday 11/29/12 3pm EST
Are your ColdFusion applications running slow or even crashing the server? Are you concerned about what increasing load will do the the reliability of your application? Do you want to protect your organizations reputation for quality on the web? Then join us for this free webinar with Intergral’s David Stockton and learn how to keep […]
How to cure slow/crashing ColdFusion servers – Webinar notes
A few weeks ago TeraTech’s ColdFusion server tuning guru Ajay Sathuluri gave a webinar on How to Cure Slow and Crashing ColdFusion servers. He looked at how to diagnose problems and some common ways to heal a sick ColdFusion server. He also discussed what tools you can use to prevent problems from occurring. If you […]
Future Webinar Topics (How to cure a slow or crashing ColdFusion server)
We had overwhelming interesting this week’s webinar on How to Cure a Slow or Crashing ColdFusion server with over 200 people registering. Many attendees asked if we could do future webinars in more detail on some of the following topics Staging environment best practices JVM settings, memory configuration Garbage collection Monitoring tools Load testing we […]
CFUnited load testing session went well.
My CFUnited presentation on “Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool” went well. Thanks to everyone for the good feedback. My presentation, source, and testing scripts will be posted on the CFUnited site soon after the conference. Congrats to the 3 raffle winners: Steven Focht (Webserver Stress Tool 7), Abram Adams (WST), Bryan Modders (FusionReactor). […]
Presenting at CFUnited on load testing
CFUnited is next week! I’ll be presenting on Wednesday on “Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool”. I’ll be covering Basic, parameterized, and scripted load testing. It’s a fairly inexpensive tool, but can do some powerful testing. This week I also found out I’ll be able to raffle 3 software licenses: 2 licenses for Paessler […]
Clustering and fail over for CF and SQL Server
We were recently working on a site that was growing rapiding in traffic. How should it be clustered and why? In putting together this recommendation we took into account the anticipated increase in traffic volumes and also are striving to avoid too much distribution of assets across a network. By avoiding the use of Network […]
