Database Vulnerability Scanning
At cPanel Conference, I was queried to see if there was any database scanning done in addition to the malware scanning I perform on automated migrations. I’m glad this question got asked, because I had…
Category: High-Tech
Migrating From Non-cPanel Sources To cPanel: An Indirect Approach
It would be wonderful to have a single tool that can migrate from any source into a managed environment like cPanel. Unfortunately, in the Linux world, it is easy to put anything you want anywhere…
Database Syncing With Replication – Part 2
Wasn’t setting up database replication for migrating content fun and easy? What do you mean I owe you for therapy visits? Now that we have replication in place, sending from the live server over to…
Environment Checking
Before your migration, you (ideally) made a plan as to what your site’s requirements are, what software you are running, and if there are any extra programs or settings that your sites depend on. But…
Database Syncing With Replication – Part 1
You may recall from an earlier post that one of the advanced methods for database syncing between two machines for very large databases is to set up replication, or slaving. That’s all well and good,…
Copying Files
My favorite saying is that in computers, there’s at least three ways to do anything, and I’ve found that to be true nearly all the time. Sometimes, those three ways of doing something are even…
Advanced Database Syncing
Are you the 1%? That is, does mysqldump just not cut it for your database? Maybe you have a million transactions an hour, or a 200GB database. Or a 200GB table. Well, no matter which…
Syncing Databases
Databases are regularly the toughest things for me and clients to deal with. Possibly because I’m not a DBA and I cant write a CREATE TABLE if I had a gun to my head, but…