The Amazon AWS outage on April 21st, 2011 brought down many popular sites including Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Buddy Events app for Facebook. There’s been many blogs and web sites with write ups analysing the reasons why the Amazon AWS outage occurred but I came across what I consider...
Apparently, Twitter has made a defensive move to acquired TweetDeck beating out UberMedia’s acquisition attempt in February. Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the deal, and the transaction will be announced in the next few days. The $40 million – $50 million purchase price...
Rebuilding MariaDB 5.2.5 MySQL RPM from CentOS / Redhat source RPM was brought up as a topic of discussion by Floren (TECK) on vBulletin.com tech support forums. It’s not something I do as I mainly work with official MySQL RPMs as it’s much easier to install and upgrade MySQL. Floren...
CDN provider, MaxCDN.com has relaunched their web site with a new design layout, a new tiered CDN price structure and reduced their custom SSL pricing to a third of the original monthly price. They also have custom CDN plugins for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, and Magento to allow you to...
Google just announced that from May 10th, 2011, their Google Apps free edition maximum number of users free limit has been reduced from 50 to 10 and more flexible billing changes to their pricing policy for additional Google App free user accounts beyond the first free 10 users. While I...
vBulletin 4.x forum owners maybe wondering why after upgrading their vBulletin 3.x forums that their database size increased dramatically. The reason could be due to vBulletin 4.x upgrade or installation process automatically converting some tables from MyISAM to InnoDB storage engine.
Updated MySQL benchmark results for MySQL 5.5.11 vs Percona 5.5.10-20.1 vs MariaDB 5.2.5 were made possible as I managed to gain further access to the Quad Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX L7555 Octo-Core 1.86Ghz, 64GB memory server. Apparently, it sat untouched for nearly 3 weeks after I last used the server as...
Lynne from vBulletin, posted in vBulletin Hosting Options forum a thread with a list of questions a vBulletin user should ask a new prospective web host before selecting them for vBulletin hosting. The web host questions are more geared towards shared hosting providers who implement restrictions on server resource usage...
Name: George Liu
Online Handle: eva2000
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Occupation: vBulletin.com technical support since 2001
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