by Reeshma Mathews | Feb 23, 2017 | MySQL, Server Management, Technical Support
Many websites run applications that are database driven. Fetching the data from relevant databases and delivering the contents dynamically to a web page, is what most of these applications do. As the data content or traffic increases, we’ve seen that these...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 15, 2016 | MySQL, Server Management, Technical Support, WordPress
WordPress is the most commonly used CMS for websites. It is based on PHP and the website data is stored in a MySQL database, the details of which are mentioned in the configuration file. As the information is stored in a MySQL database, it is common to encounter...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 4, 2016 | MySQL, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
MySQL database server is widely used by online businesses to store their critical and valuable data. MariaDB and Percona are other database servers based on MySQL. But the confidentiality and security of these database servers goes for a toss when one fine morning a...
by Reeshma Mathews | Sep 13, 2016 | MySQL, Server Management
On Sep 12th, Dawid Golunski announced CVE-2016-6662 aka MySQL Remote Root Code Execution / Privilege Escalation (0 day) vulnerability. CVE-2016-6662 is reported as a critical exploit which can allow local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root...
by Visakh S | Aug 8, 2016 | Drupal, MySQL, Server Management
Fatal error: Class ‘PDO’ not found is an error seen in websites running PHP applications such as Drupal, Prestashop, WordPress, etc. It’ll look something like this: Fatal error: Class ‘PDO’ not found in...
by Visakh S | Jun 16, 2016 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, FTP, MySQL, Nginx, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
Where do people host their WordPress sites? If Google Trends is anything to go by, more and more webmasters now prefer cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s fueled by the popular notion that everything in cloud is super easy – one-touch...
