Posts tagged: servers

VPS.NET Auto Recovery Monitor

Posted June 29 by Dan Cryer

I’ve been using VPS.NET for months now, both for myself and for Media Wow. Whilst their platform is incredibly stable, and their automated failover is great, there are still occasionally times when a server will go down and not come back up by itself.
The nicely integrated Server Density monitoring does a great job of [...]

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MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 3

Posted January 28 by Dan Cryer

This article is the last in my MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide series, following on from my earlier post today on setting up MySQL Monitoring on the cluster nodes, this article is a guide to setting up the load balancer with HAProxy, using the monitoring scripts we’ve created to check the node status.
HAProxy is a well [...]

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MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 2

Posted January 28 by Dan Cryer

Following on from yesterday’s guide to setting up MySQL master-master replication, the first of today’s guides is how to set up a script to monitor the status of your MySQL cluster nodes, which we’ll use in the next guide to set up our proxy.
On every one of your MySQL cluster nodes, follow the steps below [...]

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MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 1

Posted January 27 by Dan Cryer

I’m currently working on setting up a load-balanced many-master MySQL cluster at work, without using MySQL Cluster as it’s incompatible with our needs. Finding good guides on how to do this has proven incredibly difficult, so I thought I would document the process here.
This first post is going to cover setting up the servers themselves [...]

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Free VPS.NET Server Setup

Posted January 18 by Dan Cryer

I’ve been getting a lot of traffic lately from people looking for information about VPS.NET and it’s cloud platform, and I get the impression that people might think it’s difficult to get started. It’s not. As such, I’ve decided to make an offer to people wanting to use it for their web sites.
I’ll set your [...]

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