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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