Do you want your customers and/or employees to have a speedy, no-hassle end-user experience when they use your website or server, respectively? Of course you do – because an unsatisfied end-user means lost business – as in the case of a customer – or a really annoyed employee – as in the case of a server.

That’s why Monitis — the 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution that consolidates back-end monitoring, application monitoring, website monitoring, and cloud monitoring in an all-lin-one, central monitoring service (that was a mouthful) — has put together this collection of tips for optimizing HTML/CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and images. In order to check the effect of these tips Website administrators can use Monitis’ instant web page load test or use real browser full web page monitoring.

So, here are some ways to speed things up:

In a series of blogs, Monitis has begun providing guidance on picking the right NoSQL database storage tool that meets your company’s needs. In our previous blog, we offered a comprehensive overview of why NoSQL technology is important and how it compares with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs).

Now, we’d like to get a bit more specific and review various brands. We hope that this information will help choosing NoSQL DBs such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Riak, HBase and others…easier. After all, you want to make sure that your data is being stored safely. Aren’t there enough worries out there about data security – whether the data is being stored on the cloud or behind your internal, private firewall?

Gosh; there are so many NoSQL database storage tools out there. It’s almost as bad as brands of sport drinks or water. Have you noticed that some mega-supermarkets have whole aisles dedicated to what we drink!

As an IT system administrator or manager, it’s sometimes very hard to compare various NoSQL tools. It involves considering your special computing needs, matching them to what is out there, aligning what’s right for your organization and then make the right decision!

That’s why Monitis, the first hosted all-in-one network and systems performance monitoring service for sysadmins, is publishing a series of blogs that are meant to offer a comprehensive guide to NoSQL technology and brands. We want to help you make the right choice that fits the particular needs of your company.

Why should we care, you may ask yourself? Increasingly, our clients, who depend on our ability to monitor servers and networks and a host of other key metrics 24/7 from the cloud, want our advice, too, on what kind of scalable and robust database technology to use. So, we’re obliging!

Here, in a series of blogs, we’ll present research on existing popular NoSQL data storage tools that are generally intended to store unprecedented large amounts of data, offer flexible and horizontal scalability and provide blazing-fast processing queries. We’ll also get down to the nitty-gritty and compare several well-known NoSQL DBs…such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Riak, HBase and others.

In this first post, let’s discuss the reason why NoSQL technology is important.

Are you a webmaster or web developer? Want to create super-fast websites?

You may have Monitis’s recent posts sharing tips for improving the performance of Windows Server 2008 and Linux Servers, and we hope that they’ve helped you.

Now, we’re moving on to Javascript — that wonderful — but complicated — technology that enriches sites but can often get in the way of their efficient operation and slow down the user experience. And improving the user experience — whether it’s consumers or sysadmins — is our mission at Monitis. Why? Because it has been proven that optimal end-user experience improves site conversion rates, Google search rankings and web visitor satisfaction rates. What does that mean? Better business for you and your company!

Of course, aside from these series of posts, there are many ways to improve your computing experience, for example, checking the performance of web page loads. Website administrators can use Monitis’ instant web page load test or use continous real browser full web page monitoring. Web load are affected by many factors, including network speed, hosting location, server performance, application performance, web page design and optimization.

Just as we’ve provided a series of tips on how to make your Windows 2008 Server run at its utmost maximum efficiency and speed, Monitis has put together advice on making the Linux OS work miracles for you. Our interest is in making your life easier, whether it’s through informational guides such as these or by continually enhancing our monitoring cloudware with cutting-edge services, for example, new monitoring stations around the world and mobile apps for free server monitoring.

In our first post, we offered Linux Server tips on the OS‘ features and security set up. You might want to check it out before reading on. In this post, we’re going to discuss tips to improve performance based on Linux’s Configuration, third-party applications that work with the OS and miscellaneous areas.

Keep in mind – as you read through these tips – that you can apply them to get your Linux server to run like a fox – not waddle like a penguin.

Just as we’ve provided a series of tips on how to make your Windows 2008 Server run at its utmost maximum efficiency and speed, Monitis has put together advice on making the Linux OS work miracles for you. Our interest is in making your life easier, whether it’s through informational guides such as these or by continually enhancing our monitoring cloudware with cutting-edge services.

With that in mind, here are 20 tips that you can apply to get your Linux server to run like a fox – not walk like a penguin.

Monitis is dedicated to helping you make sure yourservers run smoothly, but we also want to help you put them to work and maximize their efficiency. That’s why we’re presenting here some best practices for improving the performance of Windows Server. First you’ll need to make some changes in its features, hardware, application and other areas.

Previously, we discussed tips for improving Windows Server through its hardware- and applications-based segments.

Today, we’re offering some performance tips based on the features and tools of Windows Server 2008. Here are some best practices for maximizing Windows Server features:

At Monitis, we are not only committed to making sure your servers run smoothly, but we also want to help you extract the most efficiency from them. That’s why we’ve put together some best practices for improving the performance of Windows Server. First you’ll need to make some changes in its features, hardware, application and other areas. The performance tips listed below are categorized on application-based segments.

In our previous blog post, we offered server performance tips categorized on hardware segments, and look out for future posts that will focus on feature- and tools-based segments.

Windows Server 2008 is an operating system that enables core IT resources, such as file and print sharing, remote access, and security. It provides a network foundation from which settings on computers that are based on the Windows® operating system can be centrally managed. This operating system – which you can upgrade to more advanced versions of Windows Server, e.g. Windows Server 2008 Foundation — can run the most popular business applications today, and it also provides a familiar Windows user experience that helps in managing users and safeguarding business information.

Dramatizing the beauty of the Cloud, Windows Server 2008 comes pre-installed with server hardware, so there is no need to separately obtain and install the hardware and operating system. Windows Server 2008 is also supported by an extensive network of service professionals.

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2—the most advanced Windows Server operating systems – makes it easy for you to develop, deliver and manage rich user experiences and applications, thus providing a highly secure network infrastructure. You also gain technological efficiency and value within an organization.

IT pros the world over wouldn’t be caught dead without server management software because it takes so much of the manual burden off managing servers and other critical applications.  Server management is required to to enhance the up-time of servers. Based on the server system, management plans may vary. Yet the bottom line is that proper server management software will guarantee the security and stability of servers throughout its lifespan.

Being huge machines, physical servers occupy both space and power.  Further, servers need cooling systems to keep them functioning. However, as the virtualization of servers becomes more popular, companies aren’t focusing much on physical servers. Virtualizing servers helps in reducing time, investment and energy expenditures, and they also reduce the cooling costs of servers.

Hosted server monitoring solutions like Monitis save enormous amounts of time for system and network admins, as cloudware enables you to get things done much faster and cheaper than by installing software products in-house. I’ve already covered the benefits of multi-tenant web solutions versus software solutions in my blog post Why Cloud-based Monitoring is more reliable and secure than Nagios, and we have also covered it in our white paper – Monitoring from the Cloud:  Monitis versus In-House Monitoring Software. By the way, I urge you to read them both.

But if you’re still interested in software solutions for some reason, below are a review of the popular server management software products: