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Twitter To Buy TweetDeck

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 includes both cash and Twitter...

cpanel / mysql / projects

MySQL Benchmarks: MariaDB 5.2.5 custom CentOS 64bit RPM binaries – Intel optimized

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 said that the MariaDB 5.2.5...

google apps

Google Apps Free Edition reduces max number of users

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 have transferred some of my...

cpanel / mysql / projects

MySQL Benchmarks: MySQL 5.5.11 vs Percona 5.5.10-20.1 vs MariaDB 5.2.5 – InnoDB and MyISAM

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 the owner is switching to...

forum software / vbulletin / web hosting

vBulletin hosting – List of questions to ask a new web host

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 as opposed to VPS or...

mysql / vbulletin

mysql error: Got error 28 from storage engine – mysql error number: 1030

Another common MySQL server error message encountered by vBulletin forum owners, is the “mysql error: Got error 28 from storage engine – mysql error number: 1030” error message. This error translates into “Error code 28: No space left on device” – meaning a disk partition on your forum server’s hard disk ran out of free...