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I just received a Google Alert about MySQLTuner being the Debian Package of the Day!

I’m really enjoying the Parallels Summit in Washington D.C. this week. The folks from Parallels have been great, and the vendors we have met are selling some pretty tremendous products.
Lots of folks have been asking for a summary of what’s going on after my Twitter posts appeared earlier today. Here’s the latest information [...]

I’ll be taking a short break from posting, but I should be back underway within week!  Here’s what I’m working on during the break:

MySQLTuner – Thank you for all of the e-mails with suggestions, patches and complaints. The 1.0 version of MySQLTuner is in the works and I hope that it helps you get [...]

Normally, qmail will be able to process the mail queue without any interaction from the system administrator, however, if you want to force it to process everything that is in the queue right now, you can do so:
kill -ALRM `pgrep qmail-send`
If for some peculiar reason you don’t have pgrep on your server, you can go [...]

Upgrading Plesk from 7.5.x to 8.x will change your Plesk-related MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB. This allows for better concurrency in the Plesk panel when a lot of users are logged in simultaneously. However, some server administrators will disable InnoDB support in MySQL to save resources. This will cause problems after [...]