… Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content of phenomenal session lineup for the conference this year… Day of the conference (April 10th) SkySQL and MariaDB are hosting SkySQL Solutions Day (April 13) which will feature keynotes by… (April 13) Finally there is a first Sphinx Search Day hosted by Sphinx Technologies (April 13) All these events are free…
Post: Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Post: The #1 mistake hosting providers make for MySQL servers
July 25, 2008 By 30 Comments
This article is not meant to malign hosting providers, but I want to point out something you should be … you’re getting someone else to build and host your servers for you. Most hosting providers — even the big names — continue to install… do not know why the hosting providers keep doing this. Just yesterday I got a quote from a hosting provider for a medium-high…
Post: MySQL for Hosting Providers - how do they manage ?
November 28, 2008 By 15 Comments
Working with number of hosting providers I always wonder how do they manage to keep things … thought ? This surely would help adoption by (especially low end) Hosting Providers and remember this exactly where a lot of kids start… and play with web technologies. So how do the hosting providers manage to host hundreds of users on single server with single MySQL…
Post: Traffic Tricks by Hosting Providers.
October 17, 2007 By 13 Comments
… run into the problem. The last one was with other provider and was even funnier. I got the server with 3000GB… 95% Commit + Overcharge payment is also fair pricing which means hosting provider is interested for me to use more traffic, not less… more power buy another rack. Going forward we plan to host our consulting business web sites MySQLPerformanceBlog, Percona high quality dedicated…
Post: MySQL extensions for hosting
April 24, 2008 By 11 Comments
… the patch features will surely be a great help for hosting providers to produce detailed reports on how each customer utillizes the… his own application, completely ignoring the fact they chose shared hosting. Of course this alone is not a problem and theoretically…
Post: 10+ Ways to Crash or Overload MySQL
November 13, 2007 By 20 Comments
… sometimes contacting me and asking about bugs like this which provide a trivial way to crash MySQL to the user with… tables in MySQL 5.1 Disk Space For MyISAM tables hosting providers used to use disk quotas for MyISAM tables. You can… to run queries with uncontrolled resource usage. Host Block You can have given client host blocked from accessing the server by simulating…
Post: Site was down today, support and web hosting.
August 31, 2007 By 27 Comments
… and serial console, backup etc. Plus we had one server hosted with them in Europe for couple of months for tracking… me to tell them how happy I was with service provided. How does one suppose to feel having his case solved without problem being resolved and which feedback one would provide. Of course there may be internal ticket created for mysterious…
Post: VOIP Advice requested
September 10, 2007 By 10 Comments
As one of my last posts about issues with hosting provider got great response and We got a lot of good … have to add people to the line. Emergency Phone Line Providing Emergency Support to our clients we need to put better…. However this means this someone should be good both in providing great service quality – uptime, call quality for international calls, support…
Comment: MySQL for Hosting Providers - how do they manage ?
November 28, 2008 By 15 Comments
…set (0.00 sec) mysql> show full processlist; +—–+——+———–+——+———+——+——-+———————–+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +—–+——+———–+——+———+——+——-+———————–+ | 281 | root | localhost | NULL… have and it is probably satisfactory in many cases. Shared hosting providers give newbies, shell access, PHP access, sometimes more, they already… caused by ignorance not malice. I have not purchased shared hosting for many years, but I thought they had moved to…
Post: Is DNS the Achilles heel in your MySQL installation?
May 31, 2008 By 16 Comments
… of MySQL’s authentication system. You never know when your hosting provider‘s DNS (or your own for that matter) will go… following command: mysql> SELECT user, host FROM mysql.user -> WHERE host ‘localhost’ AND host RLIKE ‘[a-z]‘; +——+——–+ | user | host | +——+——–+ | foo | my.com | +——+——–+ Any users…
