Racker Hacker Words of wisdom from a server administrator

After running the idea by some of my fellow technical folks, I’ve considered making an array of screencasts aimed to prepare people for the MySQL DBA exam. I haven’t decided to make them free or charge for them as of yet, but if I did charge a fee, it would be much less than [...]

I finally remembered this book when someone asked me about how to get started with PHP and MySQL development. If you get the chance, get a copy of this book:
PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
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Why do I like this book so much?

Teaching by application – The book [...]

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Call me weird – but I like to know where people host their sites. When I get a link to a nice-looking site, I’ll get there and think, “Hmm, I wonder where they host.”
Part of this curiosity probably stems from being a server administrator. I’ve used seven different dedicated server providers before along [...]

UPDATE: The TRACE/TRACK methods are disabled in Plesk 8.4 right out of the box!
It’s always been a bit of a challenge to disable TRACE and TRACK methods with Plesk. The only available options were to create a ton of vhost.conf files or adjust the httpd.include files and prevent modifications with chattr (which is a [...]