Author Archives: Liz Quilty

Mysql Master/Master Replication & File sync for quick easy scaling or load balance

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Liz Quilty

A lot of our customers often need a quick easy way to scale up without moving to a new host or changing IP, or even just want an overseas copy of their site, so this is a brief tutorial on … Continue reading →

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Wordcamp New Zealand – Scaling Servers

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Liz Quilty

 On the 22nd of April, I (Liz) was lucky enough to be able to speak on scaling WordPress and servers at the New Zealand WordCamp. The people there were great, and i ended up meeting and talking to many fascinating … Continue reading →

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WordPress mass update script 3.3.2

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Liz Quilty

This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading →

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The Great T-Shirt Swap – Instructables

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Liz Quilty

Well, we got the first shirts in the door today, thanks to our great friends over at http://instructables.com Here is a picture of a few of the office staff (not all of them) located in Cambridge wearing them.

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Monitoring your server

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Liz Quilty

Its always a good option to have monitoring, and there are a lot of options available. If you are interested in uptime and notifications, you can use a service like http://pingability.com If you are interested in making sure services are … Continue reading →

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WordPress mass update script 3.3.1

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Liz Quilty

This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading →

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WordPress mass update script 3.3

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Liz Quilty

This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading →

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Fixing broken permissions or ownership

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Liz Quilty

People are not perfect, not even the staff here. Perfection is not required to be a sysadmin we found, just some good shell scripts to fix things when you break them accidentally. One of the more common accidents are chown … Continue reading →

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Using swap within a VPS

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Liz Quilty

In a virtual environment, disk io can be about the most expensive operation there is. And swap (virtual memory) depends on that heavily. By default we configure a small swap partition for each VPS server so conditions where memory is … Continue reading →

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Checking a potentially hacked machine and reinstalling packages when you break things

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Liz Quilty

Sometimes you may see something odd go past in the logs, on the screen, or something might just seem a bit 'off' somehow. Its a good idea when this happens to just double check that things are as they should … Continue reading →

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