March 11th, 2010 → 10:15 pm @ Stuart
Anybody who host web sites and applications for clients knows how important it is to make sure that you have the ability to monitor the health and availability of your servers – even when you’re not at your desk.
In reality, there are many tools to do this, and quite a few are free. I’ve set [...]
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 [...]