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Entries from April 2010

Free alternative to InnoDB Hot Backup

April 29th, 2010 · No Comments

I recently found out that there is a free alternative to InnoDB Hot Backup. For those of you using MySQL with the InnoDB plugin you probably know that MySQL does not provide a tool for making online non-blocking backups. InnoBase Oy, the makers of InnoDB, do provide a tool but it’s not free. In fact [...]

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Tags: MySQL · backup

Drupalcon Security Session Notes

April 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Some of us are attending the San Francisco Drupalcon 2010 this week.  I am in a session which some of you may find interesting.  The concepts are far from revelational but they are relevant. Most security breaches are done still XSS Some things to do to increase security Do not allow full HTML as input to anyone [...]

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Tags: Security · drupal

Google will use site performance and page load speed in SERP ranking – sysadmin SEO here we come

April 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Page Load speed just became a lot more important – Google announced recently that it will use page speed in its SERP rankings. Here is a quote that will make the SEO and marketing folks knock on sysadmin doors: We encourage you to start looking at your site’s speed (the tools above provide a great [...]

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Tags: Performance · sysadmin