[TriLUG] Web Site access testing

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

A question for "the oracle."


I have been doing various searches and not coming up with the answers
that I really need.

I have a web site that I am working on, and in one "location" it
responds almost instantaneously while in a different one, a page load
takes about 30 seconds.

These are supposedly identical RHEL 8 machines, just in different parts
of the network.

I have limited access to the machine internals in the case of the slow
machine ( just a "user" ), can't even read more than the PHP error log.

The tools that I have been finding have been of two classes, the ones
that test "performance" of the Apache server itself, load testing and
such.  The other ones are designed for the network administration
people, looking for open ports and various other network faults.  If I
had access to the network internals, they might be of some help.

I expect that I am not asking the correct question, which is normal.
What might be the right question, if there is one?

I can't even ping from the fast machine to the slow one, even though I
can SSH by IP address.



Thank you all,
Brian