Author: eva2000

Tungsten Replicator: data replication engine – MySQL master/slave server setup

For the past couple of months I have glanced over articles and blogs about Tungsten Replicator – a data replication engine for MySQL which surpasses the traditional MySQL replication feature set. But didn’t know where to begin in trying it out until Giuseppe Maxia posted on his blog – The...

BuyVM OpenVZ VPS Review: Centmin Nginx installed

First time testing out a OpenVZ based VPS server from BuyVM.net. So I posted a review over at LowEndTalk.com testing out my modified Centmin v1.2.1-eva2000.13 beta release Menu mode installer script on a BuyVM.net 512MB/1GB Burstable OpenVZ VPS server. Interesting to learn about how OpenVZ VPS handles memory differently from...

WHM / Cpanel MySQL 5.5 support in WHM 11.32

Great news for WHM / Cpanel control panel users who have been asking for MySQL 5.5 support. Cpanel folks have announced that MySQL 5.5 support will officially make it in WHM 11.32 builds. Currently, MySQL 5.5.15 is latest MySQL Community build. Originally, they planned on leaving MySQL 5.5 to default...

ioping.sh – shell wrapper for ioping disk I/O latency benchmark & monitoring tool

ioping.sh is a shell wrapper script for ioping – a disk I/O latency monitoring and benchmarking tool which allows you to measure real time disk I/O, disk seek rate, disk sequential speeds. Usage: chmod +x ioping.sh ./ioping.shchmod +x ioping.sh ./ioping.sh Download: ioping.zip Example output Install ./ioping.sh —————————————– ioping.sh 0.9.8 -...

Amazon ElastiCache – Memcached server cloud hosting for Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services announces a new product, Amazon ElastiCache – which is basically using Memcached server – a scalable distributed in-memory cache server for cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2. Check out Amazon AWS blog for further details on Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache FAQ is here. ElastiCache feature set...

MariaDB 5.2.8 MySQL server released with various Aria storage engine fixes

MariaDB 5.2.8 MySQL server has been released.  Download MariaDB 5.2.8 MySQL server from http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.8/. Highlights of this release: Aria Fixes and Changes Fixes for Aria recover Fixes for updates with long keys. The max key length for aria has been reduced from about block_size/2 to block_size/3 (because the underflow algorithm requires this) Various...

Percona MySQL Server 5.1.58-12.9 & 5.5.14-20.5 released

Percona MySQL Server 5.1.58-12.9 & Percona MySQL Server 5.5.14-20.5 have been officially released. Percona MySQL 5.1.58-12.9 downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories Percona MySQL 5.5.14-20.5 downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories Percona 5.1.58-12.9 Highlights Performance Improvements fsync() has been replaced with fdatasync() to improve perfomance where possible. The...

CentOS 6.0 fix for VBoxGuestAdditions installation for VirtualBox

Virtualbox is a useful tool for testing various Linux and Windows operating systems in a virtualized environment. However, while testing my modified Centmin Nginx installation script on CentOS 6.0 64bit, I came across an issue with installing VBoxGuestAddition components – the VirtualBox Guest Additions’ kernel modules failed to get built....