Oscar Merida from Record as I Am has written a short tutorial about How to: Backup your MySQL database and email results using BASH. He creates a simple shell script which dumps the content of a database to a text file, compresses the file and sends of an email with the file.
The script only depends on Mutt or any [...]
DreamHost just started to test automatic SPF record generation.
Sender Policy Framework is designed to help reduce mail forgery. It does so by confirming that a mail server sending e-mail from your domain is authorized to do so (those that aren’t are probably spammers or viruses spoofing your e-mail address).
Mail servers that receive SMTP e-mail verify [...]
I’ve been using a couple of wireless hotspots the last few days, and while very convenient, it made me think about security. The problem is that every time you check your mail, transfer files with FTP or connect to a server via telnet all the data, including your username and passwords, are transferred over the [...]
Chinese DreamHost customer Robin has written a series of posts about installing the php accelerator and encoder eAccelerator.
eAccelerator is a further development from mmcache PHP Accelerator & Encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.
First Robin investigates the differences between caching the HTML output [...]
DreamHost today announced support for MySQL 5.0. All new MySQL databases being created will be version 5, and they will soon offer the possibility to upgrade current databases from version 4 to version 5.
For the ones who haven’t followed MySQL progress the latest years, I will recap the development roadmap here.
MySQL 4.0
Released: 25 March, 2003
Supported [...]
This month’s newsletter fresh from the press:
One-Click Installs Upgrader!
The one-click installer of WordPress, phpBB, Joomla, etc. now also do one-click upgrades.
See also The Big 2-oh!.
Subversion!
New! DreamHost now officially have support for Subversion.
MySQL 5!
Covered in MySQL upgraded to 5.0.
Jabber Talks with Google!
Covered in Jabber and Google Talk.
wiki.dreamhost.com!
Covered in DreamHost Knowledge Base and Mirror of DreamHost’s Knowledge [...]
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