Testing Web Server Configurations with Fabric and ApacheBench

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:16:33 +0000

Load testing a site with ApacheBench is fairly straight forward. Typically you'd just SSH to a machine on the same network as the one you want to test, and run a command like this:

Basic Django deployment with virtualenv, fabric, pip and rsync

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:46:37 +0000

Deployment is usually a tedious process with lots of tinkering until everything is setup just right. We deploy quite a few Django sites on a regular basis here at Caktus and still do tinkering, but we've attempted to functionalize some of the core tasks to ease the process. I've put together a basic example that outlines local and remote environment setup. This is a simplified example and just one of many ways to deploy a Django project (I learned a lot from Jacob Kaplan-Moss' django-deployment-workshop), so I encourage you to browse around the Django community to learn more. The entire source for this example project can be found in the caktus-deployment Bitbucket repository.

Apache on Caktus Group

Testing Web Server Configurations with Fabric and ApacheBench

Basic Django deployment with virtualenv, fabric, pip and rsync