Howto forge has another tutorial on setting up LAMP on the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is definitely my Linux flavor of choice probably because it’s the easiest for me to setup and somewhat resembles my favorite platform of choice Mac OS X. The LAMP stack runs well on Ubuntu and for the most part has gotten a lot easier to install. I no longer have weird issues where I ask myself why is it doing that, and have no explanation. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently blogged on “The Perfect Setup” for SuSE and Howto forge has another tutorial describing the perfect setup using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake). Since this is the Linux of choice for me, it’s a much better tutorial for me to follow when I create my server installations. I know many people like Ubuntu as well so this should help some. Most people that are doing installations like this already have a pretty good idea on what they are doing, but well written documentation to use as a guide never hurt. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »