Posts Tagged ‘linux’
Open-Source LAMP A Beacon To Developers
July 17th, 2006
CNET News.com had a post a couple days ago about LAMP in the industry. For those of you that don’t know LAMP is Linux operating system, Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and a scripting language such as PHP, Perl, or Python. Many times I will use this system on Mac OS X and use PHP as my scripting language of choice.
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The Perfect Setup – SuSE 10.1
May 26th, 2006
While my Linux platform of choice is still Ubuntu, there is a pretty good tutorial on Howto Forge on setting up services for an ISP such as web server, mail server, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, Quotas, and Firewall. The author of the article chooses SuSE Linux for his installation, but this tutorial with a little bit of modification could be used on any flavor of Linux. If you are looking to use SuSE this may be a good tutorial for you to use to setup your machine.
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How To Setup a Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster
April 24th, 2006
For those of you with high traffic sites or would like to add some redundancy to your MySQL database, clustering is a very good starting point. That is assuming that you have about 4 or 5 machines that you can spare. Howto Forge has a great tutorial on setting this up on 4 machines using MySQL 5 Cluster. The setup requires two storage nodes and one management node and two nodes for load balancing. The example utilizes 4 machines by loading the cluster management server onto one of the load balancing machines.
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