I heard this one again last week, and I’m not sure why it’s still going around. Microsoft changed the behavior of Truncate Table to be able to be rolled back, but this myth had been taught to DBAs for so many years, that I think some...
URL shortener’s have proliferated in the past few years, mainly due to the confines of data length that mobile and social networks like Twitter apply. The following code example shows how to make a simple and efficient URL shortener, with...
By default, WHM gives you the option of using Spamhaus and/or Spamcop for added SPAM protection for incoming email. If you have additional DNSBL’s (DNS-based RBL’s) that you want Exim to check email against, you can easily enable them if...
Damn Small Linux (DSL) – a small, business card size computer operating system based on Knoppix. It was designed to run graphical environment and applications on old PC machines with 486 Pentium processors and very little memory.
InnoDB by default stores all data in one large file, typically referred to as the InnoDB tablespace. Without customisation, A file named ibdata1 at the root of your MySQL data directory will contain all your data and indexes. One problem that has...
Whether operating a commercial site, a directory, or a personal site, it is important to ensure you do not have ‘dead’ links on your website. Broken links; links that point to inactive domains or 404 pages are of little use to your site...
Howto check number of emails in the mail queue: exim -bpc To check the email ID, sender and receiver of the each email: exim -bp | more To delete frozen emails from the mail queue, execute: exim -bp | grep 'frozen' | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim ...
As much as you are concerned about the security of your servers, your end users are likely just as concerned about what measures you have in place to protect their accounts against hacking attempts and unauthorized access. The following tips will...