New Relic is an application performance monitoring (APM) tool for Developers and Ops, focused on providing deep insight into the project’s performance and reliability in real-time. Designed to pinpoint and diagnose issues within an application, it can track the...
Performance Optimization
How many cloudlets do I need to support my application?
A very common question we receive is "How many cloudlets do I need to provision to handle X concurrent users?" Unfortunately, this question is nearly impossible to answer without formal load testing. The number of visitors supported by a particular set of...
How do I load test an environment?
When developing scalable topologies on MightyBox, we encourage you to properly load test all production environments to ensure they perform as expected. Please note, however, that you cannot load test environments via their *.mightybox.site domains (or via a...
Enabling server cron to replace WP cron
WP cron is an ingenious, low-tech solution to a complex problem: allowing content publishing and other activities to be scheduled within a WordPress site without requiring a sysadmin to be involved in writing cron configuration files. The approach, however,...