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Upgrade Debian 6 Squeeze to 7 Wheezy

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:May 20, 2013
Post category:Linux Administration
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One of the advantages of Debian operating system is the ability to live update a production server from current to next release. Under normal circumstances you do not have to…

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Memcached Installation and Configuration with PHP on Debian server

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:April 28, 2013
Post category:Linux Administration
Reading time:8 min(s) read

In a previous post I wrote about Memcached installation on Archlinux workstation. This is a similar post for Debian server machine. I will describe Memcached installation and configuration on a)…

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Is it time to Remove MySQL in favor of MariaDB in Production Servers?

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:April 1, 2013
Post category:Database Administration
Reading time:5 min(s) read

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, which is community maintained under the GPL v2 license. All code in MariaDB is open source. MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement for…