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Removing a Package on Debian with Extreme Prejudice

raindog308

Mar 18, 2023

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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.

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!

raindog308

Mar 03, 2023

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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!

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!

Stop the Senseless Flushing!

raindog308

Feb 27, 2023

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After you create users and grant privileges in MySQL, the next step is to FLUSH PRIVILEGES, right? Wrong.

PostgreSQL 15 is Released!

raindog308

Oct 13, 2022

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The world's most advanced open source database

Nodes and Modes: Maintaining Galera Replication for MariaDB

raindog308

Sep 23, 2021

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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...

Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters

raindog308

Sep 22, 2021

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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...

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 3: Configuring MariaDB Multi-Master Replication

raindog308

May 14, 2021

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In this series, we take you from bare-metal to a highly-available Wordpress site, load-balanced over two nodes and resistant to VPS failures using MariaDB multi-master replication, DRBD, and round-rob...

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 3: Configuring MariaDB Multi-Master Replication

Automating mysql_secure_installation in MariaDB Setup

raindog308

Apr 27, 2021

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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...

Automating mysql_secure_installation in MariaDB Setup

LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

Kaylee Westover

Jul 18, 2019

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This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack, which includes A...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

Ryan Flowers

Jul 15, 2019

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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...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04

Kaylee Westover

Jul 05, 2019

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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...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

Ryan Flowers

Jul 01, 2019

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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...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

Ryan Flowers

Jun 15, 2019

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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...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

Ryan Flowers

Jun 13, 2019

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Welcome to the third installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series. This tutorial builds on the work done in Part 1 and Part 2, so if you haven't checked them out,...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]

Ryan Flowers

Jun 03, 2019

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In Part 1 of this Tutorial, we discussed why we decided to build a LAMP server instead of getting one pre-configured via a control panel such as cPanel or Virtualmin. We configured Remi's repository f...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]

Ryan Flowers

Jun 03, 2019

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Welcome to another LowEndBox Linux tutorial! In this post we're going to design and configure a high performance server that will allow you to run multiple websites using the latest software available...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]

MariaDB: Installation, Optimization and Tuning

SysAdmin

Sep 29, 2016

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MariaDB is forked from MySQL, MariaDB has been known to be a drop-in replacement that brings enhancements and performance optimizations over MySQL. This tutorial will show you how to install, optimize...