Automatic mySQL backups via email (Postfix -> Google Mail)

October 30th, 2009 → 11:07 am @ Stuart

When I was setting up my latest virtual server (courtesy of the ever fantastic VPS.net cloud), I wanted to come up with a simple hourly backup policy for the mySQL databases that reside on the machine. Every hour, I wanted to dump the databases, tar/zip them up in a single archive and email it with [...]

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Web hosting on the cloud – thoughts and experiences

July 28th, 2009 → 10:34 am @ Stuart

Since setting up as a self employed Internet Consultant to assist companies in the Leeds, UK area and beyond I needed to arrange myself a hosting environment, to host this site and any potential client sites that require hosting to go along with web design, web development, web marketing and the other services that I [...]

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Twitter breach of security is a lesson to us all

July 21st, 2009 → 9:30 am @ Stuart

Recently a story hit the news of a breach of security at Twitter – a hacker going by the name of ‘Hacker Croll’ managed to gain access to the google mail account of a Twitter employee and from there into a lot of other online accounts, gaining accessing to hundreds of confidential company documents.
Now that [...]

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