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Performance VPS tutorials

Optimization, monitoring, and best practices on high-performance NVMe VPS.

Performance VPS

11 tutorials available

Advanced

TCP BBR and network sysctl

Enable BBR congestion control and optimize network sysctl parameters on a HolyCloud Linux VPS to improve throughput and latency.

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Beginner

Analyzing I/O (iostat)

Use iostat and sysstat on a HolyCloud VPS to diagnose disk bottlenecks, latency, and volume saturation.

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Intermediate

Redis as application cache

Deploy Redis on a HolyCloud VPS and use it for session, object, and query caching to offload PHP and MySQL.

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Advanced

Prometheus + Grafana + node_exporter

Install Prometheus, node_exporter, and Grafana on a HolyCloud VPS to monitor CPU, RAM, disk, and network with dashboards.

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Intermediate

Nginx FastCGI cache

Configure Nginx FastCGI cache on a HolyCloud VPS to serve PHP pages from memory and reduce PHP-FPM load.

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Intermediate

PHP-FPM on Performance VPS

Tune the PHP-FPM pool (pm, pm.max_children, slowlog) on a HolyCloud Performance VPS to maximize PHP throughput without saturating RAM.

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Intermediate

CPU load tests (stress-ng)

Measure CPU stability and performance on your HolyCloud VPS with stress-ng, interpret results, and avoid abusive saturation.

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Intermediate

Monitoring with Netdata

Install Netdata via the official script and secure access to port 19999.

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Advanced

Tuning MySQL/MariaDB

Tune innodb_buffer_pool_size, enable the slow query log, and analyze slow queries.

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Beginner

Configure swap

Create a swap file with fallocate, enable it via fstab, and adjust swappiness.

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Intermediate

Optimize NVMe disks

Reduce SSD wear and improve I/O with fstrim, noatime, and iostat.

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