Add an AdSense block to a WordPress sidebar
Adsense is probably the most common contextual ad service out there. For WordPress there’s a whole bunch of plugins for installing the ad code.
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Stats for NginX Upstream
When using NginX as a load balancer, the question comes up of how to properly track traffic delivery stats for the servers in the Upstream section.
FFmpeg with libaacplus and fdk-aac support on CentOS
While working on a project for a client I needed to extend ffmpeg’s functionality and add a couple of features it doesn’t have out of the box. Needed to enab...
Setting up replication with lsync
For replicating data between servers, NFS isn’t always the right tool. If you need the same content in two directories across several servers, lsync works we...
Converting Outlook PST to Thunderbird Format
If you decided to move from Windows to Linux and ran into the problem of importing mail from Outlook into Thunderbird, keep reading. The following script he...
The HaProxy statistics page
HaProxy provides a convenient tool for showing statistics in real time.
How to configure the log for HaProxy
To enable HaProxy logging edit /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog - bring the only line there to the following form:
HaProxy configuration examples
Following up on the first article, in this one I want to look at a few examples of configuring HaProxy for balancing traffic.
Changing the engine for MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB
Changing the engine for MySQL tables from MyIsam to InnoDB happens in two steps: Build a query based on the existing data Run the new query.
T-SQL Cheat Sheet - Part 1
In this post I put together a basic set of t-sql scripts that give you metadata about MSSQL. If you’ve ever tried getting some of this info through the GUI, ...
How to Connect to a Server over ssh from PHP
A small note on how to connect to a remote server from php, run a command and display the results on screen.
A short overview of what HaProxy can do
HaProxy is a wonderful and very flexible tool for balancing traffic. It has a whole pile of options and configuration variants, and it has its own quirks. It...
Enable Epel, Remi, Atrpms in RHEL/CentOS
It’s no secret that CentOS and other RedHat-like systems come with a standard set of repositories. Unfortunately, many required packages are missing.
Installing Solr + Tomcat6 on CentOS
Solr doesn’t need tomcat to work. You can use its built-in functionality to run it on port 8983.
What LVM is and what it’s for
LVM - logical volume manager. It lets you combine several physical disks into one logical device and treat that as a single disk.