Nathan’s MySQL Crash Course: Part Two
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on MySQL storage engines, GT’s lead sysadmin Nathan March gives some MySQL tips, to be followed by some Percona-specific insights tomorrow.
Nathan’s MySQL Crash Course: Part One
Our senior sysadmin, Nathan March, has been compiling some notes on MySQL and InnoDB for internal use, but we thought they might be of some use and interest to a broader audience. We’ve split Nathan’s insights up into three posts which we’ll be posting daily. First up, Nathan talks about the distinctions between MyISAM and InnoDB, two of MySQL’s storage engines:
I initially started writing this for sysadmins but thought it might be of use to programmers on the whole to help give some insight into MySQL’s storage engine, how they work and why they do certain things. Hopefully this will help demystify things a little on how InnoDB and replication work internally.
World IPv6 Day!
June 8th, 2011 is World IPv6 Day.
Today content providers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and of course Gossamer Threads will default their website to run under IPv6 as part of a global test to gauge the readiness of internet providers, webhosts and everyone in between. This is the first major test of IPv6 and we’re excited to play a part!
Getting a Better Eye on Server Traffic
Server monitoring is a vital part of Gossamer Threads’ hosting platform. Recently, we updated our Gossamer Eye monitoring system to keep up with the growth of our server racks. While we’d made plenty of modifications to that system to match growth in the past, we realised this time that we were passing a benchmark number of servers and needed a ground-up reconstruction of our monitoring system. Here’s how we rebuilt Gossamer Eye…
One Laptop, One Child, One Great Cause
Gossamer Threads is excited to announce that we’re now the hosting partner for the One Laptop Per Child project, a unique not-for-profit group dedicated to giving children in the developing world better access to education by designing and distributing unique, low-cost laptops. In addition to hosting OLPC, GT is helping them optimize their site performance and monitor server load. Learn more about this great organization after the cut.