Bootstrapping a LAMP Stack with Application and Server Monitoring

10 February 2012
in stack / lamp / application monitoring / server monitoring / bootstrapping /

10 February 2012 in London

Monitoring is an essential part of your cloud platform, but it does take a lot of effort to do it right. We need a good monitoring system because things change so fast on cloud platforms you need to be able to detect this change before it happens. This article covers the setting up of a PHP based LAMP Server and New Relic (APM and Sysmond). We have broken this process down into something that you should be able to implement automatically by following each step.

Bootstrapping a LAMP Stack

05 February 2012
in stack / lamp / bootstrapping /

05 February 2012 in London

Lets assume you need to setup hosting for your company or migrate your current website from a old and creaky host to a popular new cloud service. In this instructional I go through the details of setting yourself up on cloud servers by Amazon Ec2, Brightbox and Linode. This process is really simple because Skystack provides the necessary platform intelligence to make this possible.