by Visakh S | Feb 16, 2016 | Magento, Server Management
Magento is arguably the most popular eCommerce application, but its Achilles heel is performance. Sooner or later every webmaster finds their site to be slow, and look for Magento speed optimization methods. The natural tendency for most webmasters is to upgrade...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 3, 2015 | cPanel, MySQL
You see a pop-up notification asking you to update your browser. What do you do? Update the software, ignore the alert or postpone it to a future date? If you tend to overlook such notifications, its time to reconsider. Updates help to ensure that your software is...
by Visakh S | Jun 30, 2015 | MySQL, Server Management
Server crashes could leave databases in inconsistent states. While there are many tools available to repair MYISAM tables in MySQL, InnoDB repair is not always so straightforward. MySQL could refuse to start up, leaving you with in-determinate downtime. If your MySQL...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 8, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
Most of us are familiar with LAMP, the most popular free/open source solution stack in use today. There is an, not as popular, alternative that database intensive site owners might be interested in: LAIP. While LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP; LAIP swaps...
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...
