Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

Disk speed is an important part of measuring a server’s performance. AWS has many different types of EBS volumes, and it uses a burst-bucket model—similar to T2 instances—to determine your disk’s overall speed.Read This Article … Continue reading →

If you’re regularly writing or reading files, your disk speed can affect your server’s performance. We’ll show you how to measure your server’s speed, and how to understand how it stacks up to the competition.Read This Article o… Continue reading →

The Unix PATH is an environment variable that tells the shell which directories it should look for when you issue commands. You can think of it like a list of Application or Program Files folders.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Many cloud server providers operate at such large economies of scale that they’ll give away small instances for free, simply to entice you to use their platform. You can take advantage of this to run a small Linux box for development.Read This Ar… Continue reading →

Having your server send you emails is a simple way to get notifications from bash scripts, applications, and cron jobs. Command line email works similarly to personal email, and is easy to configure and use.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Cloud server providers will often advertise their instances as having a certain number of “vCPUs,” short for virtual CPU. How much performance can you expect from this compared to a regular CPU?Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

If you’ve got a hard drive you want to add to your Linux server, physical or virtual, it’s not going to work out of the box. You’ll have to initialize the drive with a filesystem, and set it to automatically mount at boot.Read This Ar… Continue reading →

You probably want to know when your server is running out of disk space. An easy solution is to configure a cron job to run daily and send you notifications over Slack if there are any issues.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

The cron utility is used for running scripts and commands at regular intervals, and at specific times and dates. It’s built into most Linux distros, and provides a very useful way to schedule tasks on your server.Read This Article on CloudSavvy … Continue reading →

If you’re constantly sending repeated messages to Slack, and want to automate the process, you can do so from your primary Slack account, without adding a new bot user. This will allow scripts and programs to send messages as you.Read This Articl… Continue reading →