by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 4, 2010 | Server Administration
A vulnerability in Linux kernels prior to 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125 allows a local user to cause a denial of service attack on your server. So this is a good time to cross check the level of access you’ve granted to the users on your server. If you’ve...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 30, 2010 | Server Administration
If you haven’t, you should. You’d be surprised at how different it looks, not to mention the loss of functionality. A research recently conducted by 1&1, one of the largest web hosting companies in the world, shows that 50% of the companies they...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 22, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
The MySQL replication team have been hard at work improving the features of MySQL replication. In this part, I’ll be talking about a few more features included in MySQL 5.5 Automatic Relay Log Recovery If this features is enabled, when a Slave recovers from a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 19, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
There have been many advancements in MySQL 5.5, a majority of them have been towards improving performance and scalability. InnoDB is now the default storage engine, which provides higher levels of performance and reliability than MyISAM. InnoDB 1.1 that is, a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 17, 2010 | Apache, Server Administration
World of web is becoming faster day by day. Webmasters have been making conscious efforts to enhance website speeds even more, now that Google has even page rank linked to website speed. Sticking to efficient coding and adopting best practices has always been the...
