Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We're at the final part and now we're going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we're setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.
Read MoreRecently I read a long article about the difference between SYSDATE() and CURRENT_DATE() in Oracle databases. It reminded me that I once researched the difference between NOW() and SYSDATE() in MySQL. These functions seem very similar, and for many (most?) uses, you'd be hard-pressed to observe a difference. But they're not exactly the same. Here's a quick guide on which to use when.
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If you've been following my journey with Directadmin, I signed up for a DirectAdmin reseller account with Silicom Network. They perform backups, but I'd like my own backups. How can I automate them, including MySQL, when I don't have a shell account?
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apt just slaps at the problem; dpkg solves it. An interesting experience trying to get MariaDB back to a clean slate.
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We did a six-part tutorial on setting up a highly available Wordpress site using two VPS systems, configuring MariaDB and replication, using DRBD and OCFS2 for filesystem replication, and tying it all off with round-robin DNS. It still works!
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After you create users and grant privileges in MySQL, the next step is to FLUSH PRIVILEGES, right? Wrong.
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Low End Box recently published A Beginner’s Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy’s Free Courses! The second of the two Udemy courses discussed in that post was Create a Members Only Blog using PHP, MySQL,...
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Sure, you come to LowEndBox to get great deals, but did you know you can also learn a thing or two here? We have over 250 tutorials we've published over the years on topics such as Linux VPS administr...
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In the world of database systems, SQL has been the king since it took off in the early 80s. It was conceived, developed, and codified in the 1970s but really hit its stride once developers had worked...
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In a previous tutorial, we showed you how to setup Galera replication for MariaDB so you could have multi-node, multi-master clusters. We also saw how MariaDB painlessly replicates data. In this tut...
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Galera is MariaDB's multi-master replication technology which makes it a snap to setup highly-available multi-node MariaDB clusters. In this tutorial we'll walk through setting up a cluster and also...
Read MoreFree VPS, Cheap VPS, and Ryzen VPS, plus interviews with DirectAdmin and OnApp, plus our Industry Roundtable on ipv4 exhaustion, plus...whew, it was quite a week! This video is our weekly update of ev...
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Lots of people want to automate their system setup, and this is frequently done by either using the provider's new VM hooks to run a script at setup time or later using something like Ansible. If you...
Read MoreDatabase tuning is an art, rather than a science. I speak as someone who's worked as a professional DBA for over 15 years and is certified in multiple commercial RDBMS techologies. There is no set of...
Read MoreMariaDB and PostgreSQL are the two leading SQL databases. Both adhere to many ANSI SQL standards, but these ANSI standards don't specify all behaviors. The SQL statement themselves (such as SELECT, IN...
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Limitless Hosting recently contacted us with very affordable cPanel/DirectAdmin Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting. They told us that even normal price starts at $0.50/month! Also, they provide even mor...
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Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and in...
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This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox, running Debian 9. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack...
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Moodle is an open source Learning Management System or LMS. It hails as the worlds most popular learning platform with over 153M users worldwide. Moodle is consumable in 3 basic hosted varieties: DI...
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In the previous CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorials, we configured a LAMP stack, secured it with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and installed WordPress with WP-CLI. Here in Part 5 we're going to up our ga...
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Welcome to the fourth installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series.In Part 1 and Part 2 we configured a LAMP server with PHP-FPM running PHP 7.3 and a modern versi...
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