How To Use Percona Xtrabackup To Create A MySQL Slave
Percona Xtrabackup can be used to create “hot backups” of MySQL servers fairly quickly and can avoid some of the pitfalls of mysqldump. Xtrabackup can be setup to use backup …
Galera Cluster MariaDB Configuration On CentOS 7
Galera cluster is a true multi-master MySQL cluster using synchronous replication. It allows for any of the nodes to be used as a master or all of them as …
How To Install NTPD On CentOS 7
NTP (Network Time Protocol) is a protocol which allows computers to synchronize time. NTPd is a daemon that maintains the system time in synchronization with other NTP servers. This prevents …
Install And Configure ProFTPD On CentOS
ProFTPd is an Open source FTP daemon, widely used for its granular configuration ability. This is a guide to provide install methods for both CentOS 7 aswell as CentOS 6 …
Bash Scripting Introduction
Essentially bash scripting is just linking commands together. You can perform many tasks consistently using predefined scripts allowing them to become repeatable and standardized. If you are looking for more …
How To Upgrade Supervisord In CentOS 6
Supervisord is a simple system for process management and monitoring. It can start processes or restart them when they crash. The repositories for CentOS 6 for supervisor are quite old …
How To Setup SSH Key Authentication
SSH key authentication can be used for password-less login between 2 servers. This is also useful for adding a key to accounts like git or gitlab for version management. Source …
Block Countries With Nginx and GeoIP
You can use nginx to either allow or deny certain countries from accessing your site using the GeoIP database which maps IP addresses to the origin country. Nginx GeoIP Requirements …
Piwik Analytics on Nginx
Piwik is a open source web site analytics software. It is free and opensource and can be used to track Nginx requests as well as Apache. This guide covers the …
Nginx Caching for WordPress using fastcgi_cache
Caching PHP requests can dramatically reduce server resources per request and make the pages load time decrease substantially. In this tutorial we are going to utilize the fastcgi_cache functions in …