Why switch to PHP 7.1, 7.2?
We have always encouraged you to update your software. Very often it brings new features, better performance and bug fixing in previous versions. On January 19, 2017, PHP 5.6 lost the active support of its developers. This means that the language is no longer actively developed. At present, developers are introducing only critical security improvements.…
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Duplicity – quick and easy backup
Many server administrators have to face the problem of backing up their files when creating their architecture. This is a very important activity, because if something goes wrong, you can quickly restore your system to its pre-crash state with such files. The simplest tools for making basic backups are tar, gzip and lftp. The first…
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Speed up your website with Cloudflare!
We are pleased to announce that today we have become the official partner of Cloudflare. It is a service offered by CDN (Content Delivery Network) and DNS servers. A copy of the website files is stored on many servers around the world. This accelerates the loading time of our website by automatically optimizing the code…
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How to avoid a warning about a dangerous side in Chrome?
It’s not been known for a long time that Chrome’s browser will show warnings if you visit a website that doesn’t have an SSL certificate. Google has recently sent additional reminders to website developers to enable SSL encryption on their websites. How do you avoid this? We will show you how easy it is to…
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Blue-Green software deployment
One of the most important activities in working with IT systems is the release of code for production or software update. Not so long ago, new versions of the software were available on CDs released several times a year in the form of newsletters. With the advent of agile software development, cyclical releases appeared at…
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Case study: How to split two domains into separate G Suite accounts?
Recently we have been asked to split two domains that are on one G Suite account (formerly Google Apps). The aim was to separate one domain together with emails, files from disks, etc. into a separate account (separate billiards, administrator account, etc.). Google does not support such a process, so we were left with the…
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MultiTail – preview of system logs in many windows
Many Linux users know the Tail tool, which prints the number of last lines of text or stream. It is used as a diagnostic tool for checking changes in files. In today’s article we will present a much improved version of this tool – MultiTail.
Read more Simple and fast database backup thanks to Percona XtraBackup
Backup of a small database is not a problem. A few seconds of downtime in the application or at night is not a big problem for us. The difficulty arises when we really have a lot of records to archive. Such an example can be MySQL 5.5 database, which contains about 83 973 092 records,…
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Recovery of deleted data from MySQL using binlogs
What to do when we accidentally run a bad query based on MySQL? Is it possible to recover deleted data from MySQL? If we use binlogs, which we use for example in MySQL replication, we can do something about it.
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