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Centmin Mod new web site & new release

Centmin Mod News Updates Centmin Mod web site get’s a new revamped face lift. Check it out http://centminmod.com/ ! Centmin Mod v1.2.2-eva2000.21 Released to update Nginx, PHP and MariaDB software versions http://centminmod.com/download.html. Full Change Log http://centminmod.com/changelog.html Centmin Mod v1.2.3-eva2000.01 beta release is still being worked on and tested by members of Centmin Mod Google+ Community – ...

No more Free Edition of Google Apps !

As a free Google Apps user myself, it’s sad news to read that Google has announced that they will be changing their Business Edition Google Apps offering and ending the Free Google Apps edition. Luckily, existing free Google Apps users won’t be affected so @yourcustomdomain.com free Google Apps service will continue to work. But new...

pigz parallel gzip compression revisited

Today, revisiting pigz – a parallel gzip compression alternative to gzip. I had a client who’s MySQL sql database backup came in at 9.9 gigabytes in size and he was running a level 9 gzip compression on the file which took ~48 minutes to run on his WHM/Cpanel powered dual Intel Xeon E5520, 12GB memory...

Unixy.net Cpanel Varnish Plugin 1.4.5 RC8

Catching up on old news for WHM/Cpanel and Direct Admin users who have installed Unixy Varnish Cpanel plugin, version 1.4.5 RC8 is the latest release. Previous Unixy Cpanel Varnish Plugin 1.4.5 RC7 fixed HTTP 400 Bad Request errors and updated Varnish Cache to 3.0.2. Apparently, from Varnish Cache change log, HTTP 400 Bad Request errors which occur...

mysqlmymonlite.sh install & usage video

Just uploaded a new video to mysqlmymon.com showing how to install mysqlmymonlite.sh script to gather server stats in less than <12 seconds. In fact probably takes longer to copy and paste the output ! Best viewed in full screen HD mode.

MariaDB 5.5.24 Release working mydumper !

MariaDB 5.5.24 MySQL server was released last month and they finally released RPM packages for MariaDB 5.5 – including an official MariaDB YUM repository. I decided to test and found out if the multi-threaded MySQL backup and restore tool, mydumper worked with MariaDB 5.5.24 or if it suffered the same incompatibility problem with official MySQL.com Community...

Centmin Mod – 1st Year Anniversary !

Centmin Mod project celebrates it’s 1st year (+5 days) since creation !  Time does indeed fly by when you’re having fun and that’s exactly what it has been for me while working on and expanding Centmin Mod project to what it is now (see change log). I’ve learnt alot more about every software aspect bundled...