http://www.phinesolutions.com A web log for web work Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:58:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 5 years ago if you ask me to build my own Linux VPS for my websites I would've shaken my head and said it was too much for a non-sysadmin like me. Now I'm pretty comfortable of doing it. I want to share my thoughts in this post and hopefully ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/build-your-own-linux-vps.html Update This is an old post with some new information. Since I just shuffled my sites around a little bit this week I want to do some update to reflect that. When I put my first website on the Internet I picked one that only to be mediocre, to say the least. ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/hosting-short-list.html I just converted a SMF board (1.1.7) to IPB and there is some issues that I ran into that is worth to be shared. If you have installed IPB you probably understand how the converter works. It's a separate "app" that needs to be installed and the there is document to ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/smf-to-ipb-conversion.html One of the big events in the forum software world this year is the release of vBulletin 4.0. As a license owner I took the pre-sale bait and purchased a new license for vb 4.0. The software looks not bad to me after I installed it on a test domain. ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/vbulletin-4-0-vs-ipb-3.html The publishers have been losing their print business from left to right. Now with the 2010 approaching I think they are just going to get a golden opportunity to save their business. Rumors on the street is that Apple will release its tablet device in 2010. Whatever it will be called ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/publisher-should-give-out-tablet.html My MySQL replication slave stopped replicating the master. Checked the log file it has this error: Error reading packet from server: log event entry exceeded max_allowed_packet; Increase max_allowed_packet on master (server_errno=1236) Got fatal error 1236: 'log event entry exceeded max_allowed_packet; Increase max_allowed_packet on master' from master when reading data from binary log Naturally I started increasing the ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/mysql-replication-problem.html CVS has always been my choice of source control tool. It does what is does and I have always been happy about it. However recently I moved my source code repository from an online server to a home machine, and had an opportunity to look into Subversion, the newer source ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/moving-from-cvs-to-subversion.html Amazon has released its Relational Database service today. It has the full capability of MySQL and the service lives in the Cloud, as its other services like S3 or SQS, etc do. Also similar to other services, it is charged by usage. Why it is a great news? A couple of things ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/amazon-rds-great-news-for-web-builders.html We moved into our new home a year ago and back then the builder asked me about the network wiring of the house. Basically the home will be wired with cat5 cables for phone service. If I want a network (data) jack additionally, more cables will be added - and ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/home-networking-wiring.html Google launched Fast Flip yesterday. It's an image browser for the snapshot images taken from web pages (they are categorized of course). It is very quick and it's supposed to make online news reading fast and furious. On the revenue side, there will be ads, and there will be revenue sharing ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/publisher-on-google-fast-flip.html