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If you upgrade to MySQL 5.7, you may encounter bugs with legacy software. Wordpress, which I also consider some kind of legacy software, doe...

The official  mysqldump  supports more or less two output styles: separate INSERTs (one insert statement per row) or extended INSERTs (one i...

A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems . It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature ...

Having dealt with services mostly on Linux, I grew accustomed to type service php restart . On Mac, this is more like: launchctl unload ~...

This post is part of:  Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover The core concept of choosing a filesystem for a Web hosting ...

This post is part of:  Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover Beside choosing Linux vs Mac or Windows, the OS should not im...

This post is part of:  Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover The first step of building a hosting service is to choose your...

Motivations on building on your own hosting For my company, I started to think about offering a hosting service. Cheap solutions exist li...

To generate a unique integer ID in Puppet, we can use the hostname and convert is to base 10 using a erb inline template.

I was working on a shared hosting project and I noticed the permissions were getting a bit complicated. For each website: Each user must...

When doing low-priority tasks like backups are fixing permissions on a cronjob, it is a good idea to modify the niceness of the script. By u...

At my office, we needed a new router. With more than 50 devices that are quite heavily using the network, we we crushing our basic personal ...

Shared caches are pretty strict when it comes to caching or not a request. This is good, otherwise it would cache requests that are not mean...

I often have to deploy several config files that are very similar. Things like Apache VirtualHost and PHP FPM pools. The solution to this ki...

To update Drupal modules, you need to download manually all modules and this can quickly become tedious. Especially if you have multiple mod...

When changing DNS settings, the propagation can take from 15 minutes to two days. Clients and bosses are usually not very fond of this princ...

Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW , which is an interface to iptables . This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux ke...

Nginx comes with a rather small set of mime types compared to a default Linux system Linux uses a glob pattern to match a filename while N...

ElasticSearch  is a powerful, yet easy to use, search engine based on Lucene. Compared to others, it features a JSON API and wonderful scali...

Managing bashrc sucks We all have our nice little bashrc that we are proud of. It tests for files, programs and terminal features, ...