Category: Web

Abusix.com is an email reputation service seemingly used by Swisscom.

ℹ️ Maybe this article will be expanded someday if I had more touchpoints. The goal is not to introduce the service but to provide a glimpse into touchpoints with technology.

You can find the Website Carbon Calculator here to try for yourself. This will give you a glimpse into your website’s eco-friendliness. But don’t be fooled, this check has a lot of limitations.

Debugging the internet or services on the internet can be a challenging task. I regularly need to perform debugging lookups for performance or security. I review lists of IP addresses after defending against attacks on a web property. All of these use cases need specialized tools. Here is a collection of tools I like and use.

I run a cron job every 5 minutes to execute background processes. Once they have successfully completed, I execute the following PHP function to verify their success and measure the execution time. If the execution fails, it sends me a push notification indicating that the push/heartbeat was not received within the expected timeframe. I monitor the push timeframes on statuscake.com.

There are many tools available, but not all are for the same purpose. I will collect here what I tend to use and build know-how on.

SuperBenchmarker is similar to Apache Benchmark (ab.exe). It will display both ongoing real-time updates as well as a final result in HTML and on the command line. It can be easily installed with Chocolatey.

With the ability to parameterize SuperBenchmarker, it’s a quick and simple way to run a test right from your machine.

Ich bevorzuge Links die nicht klickbar sind. Daher schalte ich diese Option immer aus im Notepad++.

https://www.apachefriends.org/de/index.html

XAMPP ist eine kostenlose Entwicklungsumgebung mit Apache und PHP. Direkt nach der Installation ist MSSQL nicht unterstützt. Die PDO Erweiterung kann aber einfach hinzugefügt werden.