Easy and Elegant Email Management
Posted by Andrew Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:12:00 GMT
Managing dispatch.fcgi processes
Posted by Andrew Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:55:00 GMT
Rails committer Jamis Buck recently explained in this post why it is important not to use static FastCGI processes on shared webservers. AVLUX took Jamis’ helpful guidance and used it as a starting point to enable all its Rails hosting customers to manage their own FastCGI processes
At the end of this post Jamis writes:
“Note, however, that a reboot of the machine hosting your account will require you to run the spawn scripts for your applications again… I’m sure there’s a handy solution for that floating around somewhere, but I don’t know it offhand.”
At AVLUX this is how we facilitate our Rails developers managing their own dispatch.fcgi processes, and ensuring that they all run at startup:
Read more...Core Values: Integrity
Posted by Andrew Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:57:00 GMT
AVLUX takes its core values seriously. We realize that if we are going to claim Integrity as a core value, then we need to be sure we count the cost, and know what we are saying. We do not want to see the nobility of this beautiful word cheapened by our not fully understanding or appreciating its significance.
Read more...Backing up MySQL
Posted by Andrew Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:30:00 GMT
Back in the day of MyISAM, restoring a MySQL database was as simple as copying files from your backup. No more is this the case with InnoDB. Therefore it is imperative that a good backup strategy includes doing MySQL dumps, comme ca:# Dump Mysql DBs before backups
user=admin
pass=adminpass
destdir=/var/lib/mysql_dumps
ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | while read db;
do
/bin/nice -n 19 mysqldump -u admin --password=$pass $db > $destdir/$db.sql;
done This is script is incorporated into AVLUX daily backups.