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There are rumors going around that ThePlanet is in acquisition talks with Softlayer. It will be very interesting to see what comes out of this.

Download article as PDF Howdy! The above error can come up quite often on a busy database-driven website or it could happen at one time or the other for different reasons. Today, we are going to cover the main two reasons for it happening. I shall break this down by architecture. Linux x86_64 (64-bit) The [...]

March 21, 2010 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Break-Fix • No Comments

Download article as PDF This error is not specific to Litespeed but can be encountered while building PHP with MySQL support on 64-bit systems. The fix is to tell the build that the MySQL client is indeed installed, but in a different directory, by adding the following flag to the configure line in Litespeed: –with-libdir=lib64 [...]

Download article as PDF There are many types of clusters. The one I am going to cover in this post is a Web cluster. In other words, it is a cluster of several servers built to serve Web pages. It is a made up of Web servers, database servers, and file servers. You may ask, [...]

Download article as PDF There are a few server-grade processors in the market. The well-know ones are Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium, and Sparc. Core2Quad and Phenom are, for example, desktop CPUs. There is confusion as to what makes a server-type CPU different from a desktop counterpart. Besides the bus speed improvement, there is [...]

Download article as PDF Houston does it for the first time on record. It is snowing like there’s no tomorrow! Cheers!

December 4, 2009 • Posted in: Interesting • No Comments
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