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Applications: dtg and checking a new virtual private server (VPS)
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Linux Links ☛ dtg – date/time CLI utility and library
dtg is a date and time command line utility with a companion library.
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Make Use Of ☛ I stress test new virtual private servers with these tools before wasting money
I spun up a new cheap virtual private server (VPS) for a web app project that, on paper, looked perfectly fine for my needs. Unfortunately, it fell short of the promised specs once I started putting pressure on it. That’s because a VPS, unlike a dedicated server, has shared resources that sometimes don't live up to what the provider promised on the order spec sheet.
The CPU, disk, memory, and network are all sitting on infrastructure shared between you and whoever else has a guest VPS sitting on the physical host. If your host machine has inadequate hardware partitioning, your experience will be poor once other users ramp up their resource use.
So, before committing to a provider, I perform a short stress test on the VPS first with some free Linux tools, before I waste any time building on it.