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MariaDB 5.5.23 GA Stable Released

MariaDB officially has released it’s MariaDB 5.5.23 GA MySQL server about 2 weeks ago. Still waiting on an RPM binary version for download while they work out the buildbot/rpm building issues. But you can download the source tarball and Debian repository versions. MariaDB 5.5.23 Release Notes MariaDB 5.5.23 Change Log Includes MariaDB 5.3.6 MariaDB 5.5.23...

mysqlmymonlite.sh official site mysqlmymon.com online

Since June, 2011 last year, vBulletin licensed customers have benefited from using mysqlmymonlite.sh script to gather server’s apache, nginx, litespeed, mysql and other usage stats for their vBulletin forum server optimisation requests over on the official vBulletin.com support private Server Configuration forums. Today, I have setup mysqlmymonlite.sh script on it’s own domain name available for...

MySQL Server releases: MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta & Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0

Both MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta & Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0 MySQL servers have been released. MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta MariaDB 5.5.21 beta is a merge of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with some limited additional bug fixes. In this release we have added some extra notable features including an improved thread pool, an updated SphinxSE storage engine for fulltext...

Web Tech Articles Recap

In the last 12 months, I have written quite a few articles which I myself keep referencing back to or linking back to for other folks. So thought I’d revisit them with an all in one listing. Hope you folks, find some of these articles useful. If you do, don’t forget to hit the social...

vBulletin 4.1.11 released – improved CMS performance, Premium Mobile Style and CDN support

vBulletin 4.1.11 is a maintenance release focused on improving performance, resolving issues in the CMS, Premium Mobile Style, and issues with high user impact. The release contains: 11 user created hook requests, improvement requests, and feature requests. 37 issue fixes related to the CMS. 31 issue fixes with a severity of Major or higher. 15 issue fixes for MAPI...

MariaDB 5.3.5 MySQL server stable release

MariaDB 5.3.5 stable MySQL server has been announced. Compared to previous releases in the MariaDB 5.3 series, MariaDB 5.3.5 is primarily a bug-fix release with a focus on stability, performance, and usability. It is first stable or GA release of the 5.3 series and the fifth overall release in the series. Apart from fixing bugs found in the previous...

Switching ISPs – changed to Telstra Ultimate Cable couldn’t wait for NBN to roll out

Last Thursday I changed ISPs from Netspace ADSL2+ to new Telstra Ultimate Cable bundle plan and the difference in speed is amazing. I went from approximate download/upload speeds of 15Mbps/0.8Mbps to 118Mbps/2.4Mbps with 5-10ms pings within Australia and best of all it’s bundled with my home phone line rental so I’m saving AUD$45/month from the...