Monitoring the health of servers manually can save you from memory leaks, bad resource-consuming software, attacks and downtime.

TL;DR glances, htop, iotop and iftop

Installation commands in this tutorial assume Debian/Ubuntu distro and root access, else use sudo

#1 Glances

En este tutorial los guiaré con los pasos para instalar NGINX 1.8, HHVM 3.9 y PHP 5.5 FPM.

• Nginx es un excelente servidor web o proxy inverso cuya configuración sin estar optomizada es más rápida que Apache 2.4 (El servidor web más popular del mundo).
• HHVM es una máquina virtual…

In this tutorial I will be guiding you with steps to install NGINX stable, HHVM 3.9 and PHP 5 FPM.

• Nginx is a great webserver or reverse proxy that comes with a default configuration much faster than Apache 2.4 with its default MPM (Prefork).
• HHVM is a virtual machine that…

WebTorrent Trackers improved memory usage by 16x

Intro

I’ve been running the first community WebTorrent tracker (tracker.btorrent.xyz) server for a while now. The WebRTC network has been steadily growing and right now there’s at least 700 connected peers at any given time (See tracker’s stats).

Every time there’s a popular post…

Have you heard about WebTorrent?

WebTorrent is a streaming torrent client for node.js and the browser. YEP, THAT’S RIGHT. THE BROWSER. It’s written completely in JavaScript — the language of the web — so the same code works in both runtimes.

Basically, it allows a file to be shared using…