MySQLTuner

I’ve used this extremely basic procmail configuration a million times, and it’s a great start for any server configuration. It passes e-mails through spamassassin (if they’re smaller than 256KB) and then filters any e-mail marked as spam to ... [More] /dev/null: LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc :0 * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes /dev/null Of course, you can make this much more complicated with some additional customization. [Less]

It’s moments like these that make me proud to be a Racker! In just a year and a half that I’ve been there, I’ve seen a lot of great changes and this one is the best. Congratulations to RAX!

If you have Plesk 8.1 or later, you have support available for Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately, clicking the FastCGI checkbox in Plesk won’t get you all of the support you need (and expect). The folks over at Parallels created a relatively simple process to get Ruby on Rails working properly on your site: Go [...]

Many applications that are used on a standard server perform quite a few of small writes to the disk (like MySQL or Apache). These writes can pile up and limit the performance of your applications. If you have kernel 2.6.9 or later, you can adjust how these small writes are handled to allow [...]

At work, I have a Mac Mini as my main workstation with one monitor. There’s another monitor to the right which is connected to my Linux box. I run a synergy server on the Mac, and I run a synergy client in Linux. However, I was getting pretty frustrated when I’d have [...]

If you recently upgraded to Plesk 8.4.0 with short names enabled, you may have found that it’s working with SMTP, but it doesn’t work with POP3 or IMAP. There’s a bug in the Plesk version that prevents the courier configuration from being updated. To correct the issue, first make sure that Plesk has short names [...]

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MySQLTuner 0.9.8 is now available for download and it is full of new changes! So far, MySQLTuner has been downloaded almost 24,000 times. Thanks for making it so popular. Easy download! You can download it simply by running wget mysqltuner.pl. You ... [More] will automatically be redirected to the script. Access servers remotely If you have multiple servers [...] [Less]

As some of you may know, MySQLTuner is one of my favorite projects. It’s approaching the 1.0 release and I feel like celebrating. I thought about putting together some T-shirts (because as a nerd, I enjoy the occasional techy T-shirt), but I can’t come up with a good slogan. I’ve heard of some pretty [...]

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