So I have installed netdata on my machine using this tutorial https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-install-netdata-on-windows-10-wsl.html
I started it in my browser via the provided command 127.0.0.1:19999 and it only monitors and sends performance of my local machine (the laptop I'm using)
I own a website so I tried to enter my website IP + 19999 at the end but of course that did not work.
I'd like to set it up so I can measure live performance from my website.
Any idea how I can do that?
Your website runs on a server that your hosting provider owns. To use Netdata, Netdata would have to already be installed on your provider's hosting infrastructure, or you would require sufficient (effectively administrator) access to your hosting server (or servers) to install it yourself, which many hosting services would be unlikely to provide. If you are using a hosting provider that manages your website hosting you likely don't need Netdata to monitor your website performance - monitoring then is considered to be part of what you pay for.
On the other hand, if you are managing your own cloud infrastructure, it should be easy (and a good idea) to install Netdata to monitor any website servers that run on top of it.
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I'm new to web development and just built my first website with .Net Core. It's primarily HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a little C# for a contact form.
Without recommending any service providers (question will be taken down), how do I go about deploying the website? The more details the better as I have no idea what I'm doing haha.
Edit: I am definitely going to go with a service provider, however the business I am building the website for doesn't have a large budget so I want to find the best provider at the lowest cost.
Daniel,
As you suspect, this is a bit of a loaded question as there are so many approaches. One approach is to use App Services within Microsoft Azure. You can create a free trial Azure account to start that includes a 200.00 credit, which is more than enough to do all of this for free. Then, using the Azure Management Portal, create an App Service (also free) on an App Service Plan in a region that makes sense for you (i.e. US West). Once you do that, you can download what is called a Publish Profile from within the App Service's Management Portal in Azure.
If you're using Visual Studio, for example, you can then right click your project and "Publish" it (deploy to the cloud, or the App Service you just created). One option in that process is to import an Azure Publish Profile, which you can do with the one you just downloaded. This makes it really simple. The Publish Profile is really just connection information to your Azure App Service (open it in Notepad to see). It will chug for a bit and then publish and load the app for you. You can also get to the hosted version of your app by clicking the Url of the app in the App Service management portal on the main page.
This may be oversimplifying what you need to do, but this is a valid direction to take. AWS and others have similar approaches.
Again, tons of ways to do this, but this is a free approach. :-) I don't consider Azure a Service Provider in the sense that you asked us not to. Instead, I wanted to outline one turn-key approach with specific details on how to get there.
You can find specific steps in a lot of places, such as this link:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/deploying-your-web-app-using-azure-app-service/
DanielG's answer is useful, but you mentioned you don't want use any services from service provider.
Usually, there are only three ways to deploy the program,
first one is the app service provided by the service provider mentioned by DanielG,
**Benefits of using service provider products:**
1. Very friendly to newbies, follow the documentation to deploy the application in a few minutes.
2. It offers a very stable, scalable service that monitors the health of our website.
3. We can get their technical support.
**Shortcoming**
It is a paid service, and although Azure's service has a free quota, it will run out.
**Suggestion**
It is recommended that websites that are officially launched use the services of service providers.
second one is to use fixed IP for access (it seems that fixed iPv4 IP is not provided in network operations),
**Benefits of using fixed IP:**
If there is a fixed IP address, or if the carrier supports iPv6, we can deploy our website, and the public network can access it. And if you have domain, it also can support https.
**Shortcoming**
1. There are cybersecurity risks and are vulnerable to attack.
2. Without perfect website health monitoring, all problems need to be checked by yourself, and it is very troublesome to achieve elastic expansion.
**Suggestion**
It is generally not recommended because there is no fixed IP under normal circumstances. Broadband operators used to offer it, but now it doesn't.
If you are interested, you can try ipv6 to test.
the last one is to use tools such as ngrok or frp for intranet penetration.
**Benefits of using intranet penetration:**
Free intranet penetration services such as ngrok, the URL generated by each run is not fixed, and there are some limitations, such as a new URL will be generated after a certain period of time, which is enough for testing.
Of course you can purchase the service of this tool, which provides fixed URLs and supports https.
**Shortcoming (same as the second one)**
**Suggestion**
The functional implementation is the same as the second suggestion, and the physical devices used by the website are all their own. The intranet penetration tool (ngrok, or frp) solves the problem of not having a fixed IP, providing a URL that you can access.
There are few users and the demand for web services is not high, so it is recommended that individual users or small business users use ngrok and frp in this scenario. Generally suitable for OA use in small businesses.
I've inherited a couple of web servers - one linux, one windows - with a few sites on them - nothing too essential and I'd like to test out setting up back-ups for the servers to both a local machine and a cloud server, and then also use the cloud server to access business documents and the local machine as a back-up for these business documents.
I'd like to be able to access all data wherever I am via an internet connection. I can imagine it running as follows,
My PC <--> Cloud server - access by desktop VPN or Web UI
My PC <--> Web Servers - via RDP, FTP, Web UI (control panels) or SSH
My PC <--> Local Back-up - via RDP, FTP, SSH or if I'm in the office, Local Network
Web servers --> Local Back-up - nightly via FTP or SSH
Cloud Server --> Local Back-up - nightly via FTP or SSH
Does that make sense? If so, what would everyone recommend for a cloud server and also how best to set up the back-up server?
I have a couple of spare PC's that could serve as local back-up machines - would that work? I'm thinking they'd have to be online 24/7.
Any help or advice given or pointed to would be really appreciated. Trying to understand this stuff to improve my skill set.
Thanks for reading!
Personally I think you should explore using AWS's S3. The better (S)FTP clients can all handle S3 (Cyberduck, Transmit, etc.), the API is friendly if you want to write a script, there is a great CLI suite that you could use in a cron job, and there are quite a few custom solutions to assist with the workflow you describe. s3tools being one of the better known ones. The web UI is fairly decent as well.
Automating the entire lifecycle like you described would be a fairly simple process. Here's one process for windows, another general tutorial, another windows, and a quick review of some other S3 tools.
I personally use a similar workflow with S3/Glacier that's full automated, versions backups, and migrates them to Glacier after a certain timeframe for long-term archival.
I'm looking for a platform with Web UI access that allows me to do the following:
Maintain a list of computers and add / remove based on their IP address.
Provide the SSH information for each computer machine.
Monitor if the machines are up ( ping ? )
Restart the machines with a web UI using the ssh information on the backend of the application.
I'm close to start making such an app myself since I can't seem to find anything close to that in the internet. Any clues if such an application exists ?
You might want to take a look at MeshCentral: https://meshcentral.com/ - you can add systems that you are managing and do some remote operations.
http://info.meshcentral.com/: Meshcentral is open source and is both a peer-to-peer technology with a wide array of uses and web service that is targeted for remote monitoring and management of computers and devices. Users can manage all their devices from a single web site, no matter the location of the computers or if they are behind routers or proxies.
If you are looking for source code you could take a look at the "Open Manageabilty Developer's Toolkit" http://opentools.homeip.net/open-manageability. This tool was built for managing systems with Intel Active Management Technology, but it does a lot of what you are looking for. You can download the source and see if you can use any of it if you decide to write your own UI.
I am looking for a "free" IaaS service as an alternative to EC2 which will let me SSH into a system with full user permissions (create/delete files, install services, libraries and applications from the repository).
Tried OpenShift but ended up leaving due to strict permission policy on the SSH. Heroku, dotCloud, CloudFoundry.com, Stackato are PaaS providers. Rackspace and Linode might have what I need but are not free.
Is my own home server or EC2 are the only two options that I have? For the curious, I want to deploy my entire .vim folder and .vimc file for development on the cloud from a computer when I am not at home.
It seems like you want something for free that is not provided anywhere for free. I know its a shame, but it is reasonable that companies would charge for such a thing. Given that you want it for free I am guessing that you don't need much power or anything large scale. In that case I would look into the cheaper end of Virtual Private servers or a micro instance on EC2. VPS servers start at around $20 a month and a micro server starts at $14. Of course for the microserver you will have to pay a little extra for bandwidth and probably and EBS volume. Additionally AWS offers a free tier which pretty much allows you to run a micro instance with EBS for the first year.
My boss wants me to test our web application to demonstrate how much traffic the web site can handle.
The app is a JSF/JPA/Oracle application, everything is running on one rack mounted server at a local hosting company's data centre.
The truth is, we don't know how much traffic it can handle before it gets unresponsive or shuts down altogether.
What would be a good way to pound on the web app from the internet, simulating tonnes of traffic? I was thinking of setting up a number of different Amazon EC2 virtual machines and getting them to pretend to be web visitors, but is there some kind of software I can run on these machines so they behave like lots of web visitors?
Also, it doesn't have to be free, I'd be willing to apy for a solution or a tool.
Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Rob
Try this, mate:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/programs/ab.html
Did you try setting up Selenium-Grid to run tests in parallel. This will simulate actual user actions on the application and in-turn can stress the app server. You can install a performance monitoring utility on the server to monitor the load generated.
Or you could also use J Meter to simulate multiple users accessing your application. You can talk to your network admin team to route this traffic via internet instead of your local internet.