Author: eva2000

DNS Made Easy: DNS IP Fail Over really works !

Previously I mentioned I switched to using DNS Made Easy as work around for Centminmod.com’s load balanced Haproxy fail over implementation. My Haproxy load balanced 5x LEB (Low End Box) VPSes for Centminmod.com are OpenVZ based VPSes with no way of making sysctl.conf edits for non-local binding of virtual IP...

vBulletin 4.1.10 Released – major stylevars refactor & bug fixes

vBulletin v4.1.10 was released. Probably one of the more major updates with major Style Variables refactoring and bug and performance improvements. Including Style Var Mapping. Check out Darkshenron’s vBulletin 4.1.10 Style Var changes list. Style Var Mapping As a result of the 4.1.10 stylevar changes, there have been a number...

MySQL Back up & Restore: Faster InnoDB database backup / restore using Mydumper and Myloader multi-threaded tools

Previous article compared MyISAM database backup methods for mysqldump and multi-threaded Mydumper/Myloader tools. This time testing a full 100% InnoDB database and comparing InnoDB backup and restore times with mysqldump non-blocking (–single-transaction ) backup and restore with Mydumper and Myloader multi-threaded backup tools. When it comes to backup and restores,...

Faster alternative to MySQL mysqldump backup & restore with multi-threaded Mydumper & Myloader tool

Mydumper is a multi-threaded MySQL backup and restore tool written in C by MySQL engineers who worked for MySQL and later moved to Facebook, SkySQL etc. Mydumper claims to be up to 10x times faster than mysqldump for backups. I’ve even suggested to WHM/Cpanel folks to incorporate Mydumper for faster...

Litespeed Web Server v4.1.9 released – rrdgraph tool included

Litespeed Web Server v4.1.9 has been released and includes a new rrdtool dependent install script for rrdgraph, rrdgraph_install.sh. Much easier to install than Cacti. I installed it on this server and ran Loadimpact.com test run with 50 clients ramp up to see rrdgraph in action. The rrdgraph output from this...

Centmin Mod Nginx Auto Installer updated

Centmin Mod Nginx Auto Installer script has been updated to v1.2.2-eva2000.08. The latest version auto installs Nginx v1.1.11, PHP 5.3.8 PHP-FPM, MariaDB 5.2.10 with optional components to be automatically installed like, Xcache v1.3.2, APC v3.1.9, Memcached 1.4.10, Memcache v3.0.5, CSF Firewall, Python v2.7.2, Siege benchmark, and NSD a low memory...

MariaDB 5.1.60 and MariaDB 5.2.10 MySQL Server released

MariaDB MySQL server versions 5.1.60 and 5.2.10 have been released with update for Percona XtraDB InnoDB plugin to version 1.0.17-13.0. MariaDB 5.1.60 Release Notes & Change log & MariaDB 5.1.60 Download MariaDB 5.2.10 Release Notes & Change log & MariaDB 5.2.10 Download   mysqladmin Ver 9.0 Distrib 5.2.10-MariaDB, for unknown-linux-gnu on x86_64...