Sysadmin

MyISAM locking explained.

The other day, some of our users reported that saving data had become extremely slow. In some cases, forms were taking up to 15 seconds to submit.

This is a guide on how to prevent IP spoofing with HAProxy.

Facebook’s crawler is an untamed beast and if you are not careful, it will cause you a lot of problems. Especially you use a lot of story images.

This is a short beginners guide on how to rename a file using the Linux command line.

This is a guide on how to speed up SSL on HAProxy. In this post, I will show you how to dedicate specific CPU processes to HTTP and HTTPS traffic.