Check CPU, memory, and disk usage
Read the basic resource indicators on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and AlmaLinux 9, then identify where to investigate a slowdown.
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Monitoring.
Know before your users do.
Watch a Linux VPS: check CPU, memory and disk use, set up uptime and disk-space alerts, and benchmark a server with YABS and read the results fairly.
Four things cause most small-server outages: a full disk, no free memory, a crashed service and an expired certificate. You can watch for all of them without a large monitoring stack.
These guides also show how to benchmark a server and compare results without fooling yourself.
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Monitor your server with Uptime Kuma, htop and disk alerts
Watch resource use with htop, run Uptime Kuma to check your sites and get disk-space alerts from a small scheduled script.
Read guide →Benchmark your VPS with YABS and read the results
Run Yet Another Bench Script, understand its CPU, disk and network figures, compare servers fairly and know what benchmarks cannot tell you.
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