MySQL and MariaDB: Dead Code Walking
It's 2026, and if you need a relational database and you have a choice, you're choosing PostGreSQL. If you don't, you might be stuck with MySQL.
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Oracle Database 26ai is Coming Out in January. You Don’t Need It. But There’s a Free Version.
Unless you're a Fortune 500 company or an arm of the government, news that the latest version of the Oracle database is probably irrelevant to you. But it's coming out in January and will be called 26ai. This follows 23ai and 19c. And there's a free version. Really.
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NameCrane Offloaded SQL: Get Hosted MySQL in the Cloud for Very Cheap!
Hosted MySQL offerings have always been on the pricey side, relative to running MySQL yourself. Typically you pay some combination of storage, bandwidth, and metered activity (more queries = higher bill). Adding all this up usually puts it outside what a LowEnder is willing to pay, as these services are aimed more at corporate types. But here comes NameCrane to make hosted MySQL cheap for the masses!
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MariaDB Swallowed by Private Equity
MariaDB is free as in love, but MariaDB Plc is no longer free as in independent. It's been swallowed up by private equity.
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Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 7: Round-Robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, & Conclusion
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We're at the final part and now we're going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.
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Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 6: MariaDB Multi-Master
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we're setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 5: WordPress Install
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 4: Gluster
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 3: Ansible
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 2: Ordering the VPSes
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 1: Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.
Read MoreNOW() vs. SYSDATE() in MySQL/MariaDB: What’s the Difference? Watch Out for This Gotcha!
Recently I read a long article about the difference between SYSDATE() and CURRENT_DATE() in Oracle databases. It reminded me that I once researched the difference between NOW() and SYSDATE() in MySQL. These functions seem very similar, and for many (most?) uses, you'd be hard-pressed to observe a difference. But they're not exactly the same. Here's a quick guide on which to use when.
Read MoreHow to Backup Your DirectAdmin Reseller Automatically Even If You Don’t Have Shell Access
If you've been following my journey with Directadmin, I signed up for a DirectAdmin reseller account with Silicom Network. They perform backups, but I'd like my own backups. How can I automate them, including MySQL, when I don't have a shell account?
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Removing a Package on Debian with Extreme Prejudice
apt just slaps at the problem; dpkg solves it. An interesting experience trying to get MariaDB back to a clean slate.
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How to Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!
We did a six-part tutorial on setting up a highly available Wordpress site using two VPS systems, configuring MariaDB and replication, using DRBD and OCFS2 for filesystem replication, and tying it all off with round-robin DNS. It still works!
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Stop the Senseless Flushing!
After you create users and grant privileges in MySQL, the next step is to FLUSH PRIVILEGES, right? Wrong.
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Updating A Free Udemy Bootstrap Course On Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Low End Box recently published A Beginner’s Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy’s Free Courses! The second of the two Udemy courses discussed in that post was Create a Members Only Blog using PHP, MySQL,...
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Have You Checked Out Our Tutorials?
Sure, you come to LowEndBox to get great deals, but did you know you can also learn a thing or two here? We have over 250 tutorials we've published over the years on topics such as Linux VPS administr...
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SQL vs. NoSQL – Which is Better?
In the world of database systems, SQL has been the king since it took off in the early 80s. It was conceived, developed, and codified in the 1970s but really hit its stride once developers had worked...
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Nodes and Modes: Maintaining Galera Replication for MariaDB
In a previous tutorial, we showed you how to setup Galera replication for MariaDB so you could have multi-node, multi-master clusters. We also saw how MariaDB painlessly replicates data. In this tut...
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Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters
Galera is MariaDB's multi-master replication technology which makes it a snap to setup highly-available multi-node MariaDB clusters. In this tutorial we'll walk through setting up a cluster and also...
Read MoreLowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 1, 2021
Free VPS, Cheap VPS, and Ryzen VPS, plus interviews with DirectAdmin and OnApp, plus our Industry Roundtable on ipv4 exhaustion, plus...whew, it was quite a week! This video is our weekly update of ev...
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Automating mysql_secure_installation in MariaDB Setup
Lots of people want to automate their system setup, and this is frequently done by either using the provider's new VM hooks to run a script at setup time or later using something like Ansible. If you...
Read MoreTuning MySQL 101: The Big Things to Look At
Database tuning is an art, rather than a science. I speak as someone who's worked as a professional DBA for over 15 years and is certified in multiple commercial RDBMS techologies. There is no set of...
Read MoreGetting Started With the Dolphin: MySQL 101 – Full Setup and How to Guide
MariaDB and PostgreSQL are the two leading SQL databases. Both adhere to many ANSI SQL standards, but these ANSI standards don't specify all behaviors. The SQL statement themselves (such as SELECT, IN...
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Limitless Hosting – Amazing discounts on cPanel/DirectAdmin Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting
Limitless Hosting recently contacted us with very affordable cPanel/DirectAdmin Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting. They told us that even normal price starts at $0.50/month! Also, they provide even mor...
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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX
Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and in...
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