About MariaDB MariaDB one of the most popular and an enhanced drop-in replacements for MySQL. It was created and is maintained by the original developers of MySQL. MariaDB is very interesting because if is fast, scalable and more robust than MySQL.…
Percona is a free, fully compatible and high performance drop-in replacement for MySQL server. Percona supports high performance hardware and provides improved reliability and performance. To install first we need to add the repo: wget (lsb_release -sc)_all.deb Next, install the…
Installing Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 is pretty straight forward, start off by updating the sources on your box: sudo apt-get update Issue the following to install nginx: sudo apt-get install nginx Start nginx by issuing the following: sudo service nginx…
If you’ve installed Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop you won’t be able to remotely ssh in to the box until you install the ssh server. To do so, issue the following at the terminal: sudo apt-get install ssh That’s it, try ssh’ing…
Installing Varnish on CentOS 7.2 is pretty straight forward, start off by adding the epel-release repo. yum install epel-release With the repo added install Varnish yum install varnish Start Varnish service varnish start Start Varnish at startup chkconfig varnish on…
Ran into this very interesting issue today, I was trying to add two servers I had rented into NewRelic’s server monitor. The first one was successful but I couldn’t for the life of me add the second one. Turn’s out…
I recently got one of those new 5th Gen servers with SkyLake Xeons and NVMe drives. Obviously I wanted to find out the difference between these and standard Sata 7200rpm drives and Sata SSD drives. There’s a little utility called hdparm…
I was just setting up a new VPS when I hit this snag, the server threw the following error when I tried to start the LFD service Job for lfd.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered to the control…
CutyCapt is a CLI utility to capture Webkit renderings of a webpage and the resulting image can be stored in a plethora of formats. To install, first install the dependencies #For sanity sake install epel-release yum install epel-release #On to…
Kept getting this dreaded error on a new install: etho: Not enough data available yet The fix for me was to update the vnstat databases manually, issued the following command: vnstat -u