To Exchange Owners Everywhere
I just found out about an exchange that lost it’s database, and the only good backup was from a few months ago. This is not good! So I thought it was a good time to remind all the owners out there to do backups! Here are some things to consider:
Downloading your files via FTP is [...]
How To Backup MySQL to Amazon S3
There are all sorts of ways to backup MySQL to Amazon S3 floating around the interent, but the only problem is that many of them require all sorts of things. I wanted to have my MySQL database on my WHM/cPanel server backed up automatically to Amazon S3, in the easiest way possible. Here’s what [...]
Installing APC Cache on Media Temple
I think it’s really cool that with Media Temple (dv) you have your own defined amount of ram. This means you can fully utilize that memory to the max! The first thing I did when I got my account was installed APC Cache.
What is APC Cache? Well it is an opcode cache. The gist of [...]
Apache KeepAlive & Traffic Exchanges
This tip goes out to all the traffic exchange owners out there who are wondering why their massive server can’t handle the load.
Apache has a feature called KeepAlive. Basically this keeps the connection alive for all the requests a computer has. IE: the page, all the images, etc.
This is great, however by default it keeps [...]
