Archive for April, 2009

Linux server tip: force reboot/shutdown

Posted on 23. Apr, 2009 by .

TweetForcing reboot A Linux Server is not Windows XP and if reboot fail you usually still connect by SSH and do something. This commands will show you how to remotely hard reboot machine. Hard reboot mean that shutdown scripts will not run and machine reboot immediately without syncing hard disk drives, shutdown applications etc, it’s [...]

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How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster With MySQL 5.1

Posted on 18. Apr, 2009 by .

TweetThis tutorial is based on Falko Timme’s tutorial for MySQL Cluster 5.0. It shows how to configure a MySQL 5.1 cluster with five nodes: 1 x management, 2 x storage nodes and 2 x balancer nodes. This cluster is load-balanced by an Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is [...]

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How to update Virtuozzo Node to the newest Kernel

Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by .

TweetVirtuozzo includes a utility to update itself and the included templates. To run this, you will need to ssh into the hardware node and execute the command: vzup2date In order to update the templates, add a -t to the command thusly: vzup2date -t It should be noted that if Virtuozzo is installed on the server, [...]

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