Yet no one will share this kind of info – even if you’re competing against public companies, they don’t tend to reveal their traffic or conversion estimates. Hence, you have to turn to third-party tools that uncover what’s going on within your competitive landscape. In this post, we will focus on two key tools for competitive analysis – Similarweb, and Semrush – to address the following questions: How accurate are site traffic estimators; and Which tool – Similarweb or Semrush – does a better job at providing you with competitors’ traffic insights....

There are many free tools that can speed up your Internet-facing application troubleshooting and cut down the time to resolve. Let’s get it started and see which one is useful to you. Slow-loading website/application Probably the most famous issue while working in production support for internet-facing applications you will get is application slow for some user or from some location. If this happens to all the users, then you know there is a severe issue, and you may need to sit together with developers and analyze your infrastructure, code and optimize it....

Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a datastore type that is deployed on block storage devices, and it is a special high-performance file system format that is optimized for storing virtual machines. You can create VMFS datastores on Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, and local storage devices. ESXi 7.0 supports VMFS Versions 5 and 6 for reading and writing. ESXi 7.0 does not support VMFS Version 3....

There are two instances when you should be critically thinking about the platform; your website will be running on — when you’re just starting, and when the existing platform isn’t serving your needs. If you’re wondering about which of the many available options will make sense for you, you’ve come to the right place. 🙂 On the other hand, if you’re using a shared hosting account and haven’t heard of the alternatives, this is most definitely for you....

Health checks ensure an application is functional and working as expected at the starting of the day/week. Each application is unique and that requires their own checks, however, there are certain things very common, which can be applied in any application environment. Here are five checks I have listed in infographics format for you to save/print as a guideline.

Troubleshooting is fun if you are equipped with the right tools and procedures. While doing web application troubleshooting (especially when it’s internet-facing), one of the challenging tasks is to find URL IP, locations & ISP. This becomes very crucial when you are having CDN (dynamic IP) or hosted applications at vendor sites with multiple nating & floating IPs. There are many ways to find this information but getting it quickly and accurately makes you smarter....

If you’ve worked as a professional developer for more than three days, you know our jobs are anything but creative and exciting. One part of the reason is the company leadership (read: folks who never get it), while the other part is the complexity of the code we have to work with. Now, while we can do absolutely nothing about the former, we can do a lot about the latter....