August 31, 2007

Site was down today, support and web hosting.

Posted by peter |

During last one and a half year we had pretty good track record with MySQL Performance Blog – there were times when site was slow (especially when backup was running) but I do not remember significant downtime, until today we went down for few hours.

All this time the site was running on dedicated server which I rented from APLUS about 3 years ago. It is rather slow Celeron box with single disk and 512MB running Fedora Core 2. Despite its age (it was used “Value” server even when I got it) the server had very good track record with basically zero failures during this time – there were some network disruptions at Aplus but this is about all problems we had.
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Working on “High Performance MySQL, Second Edition”, how you can help?

Posted by peter |

As you may already have seen announcement by Baron we’re working on major rewrite of High Performance MySQL book – the most famous book about MySQL Performance on the market… which is getting old though. We’ve been slowly working on the book for over half a year now and were later joined by Arjen Lentz and Baron
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