There are times when one needs to automate some of the mundate tasks associated with browsing a certain Web page or accomplishing a certain interactive task online. If the task is repetitive, then there has to be a way to automate it using a computer! Browser tasks are no exception. In this brief guide I’m [...]
The MySQL query cache is used to store data retrieved using SELECT statements. The advantage of the query cache is that subsequent and identical SELECT statement results are retrieved directly from the query cache, which resides in memory. So instead of executing the SELECT statements again and again, the stream of data is pulled from [...]
This small guide will go over the installation of suPHP on a cPanel server. cPanel has a peculiar way of setting up suPHP. The good news is that cPanel simplifies the installation!
A customer wanted Amazon’s S3 tools installed on his Centos 5.3 server in order to backup important files off-network. The task is straight forward as it requires installing the usual Ruby interpreter, tools, and Gems. But as it turned out, cPanel appends an exclude line in /etc/yum.conf to prevent installing anything related to Ruby: exclude=apache* [...]
Disclaimer: this post covers Linux only. The installation steps will also only work with Linux Redhat and Debian derivatives. They can be made to work with other Linux and Unix flavors as well. What Is This Post About There are times when one can’t tell what is it that’s causing their server (as in VPS [...]
