References

www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/—The home page of bonnie, a disk benchmarking tool. It also contains a link to RAID benchmarking utilities and Postal, a benchmarking utility for SMTP servers.

www.phoronix-test-suite.com/—The Phoronix Test Suite was created by a website that does automated performance testing and comparisons and is a quality benchmarking software to consider.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/perf-tuning.html—The official Apache guide to tuning your web server.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/optimization.html—Learn how to optimize your MySQL server direct from the source, the MySQL manual.

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