System Administration

In the previous part of this article, we had a look at how to configure LVM, and we had successfully setup a Volume Group and two Logical Volumes. Now we are going to have a look at extending the group

System Administration

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a very important tool to have in the toolkit of a MySQL DBA. It allows you to create and extend logical volumes on the fly. This allows me to, say, add another disk and extend

System Administration

Although Apache performance can be improved by adding additional hardware resources such as more RAM, faster CPU, but most of the times, the real problem is that the webserver hasn’t been configured properly and is not delivering optimal performance.

System Administration

Ever wanted to setup a mail server complete with IMAP and POP access, one that was easy to configure and install and had a low memory footprint. Well I too wanted to have such a setup and after having tried

System Administration

Web server performance is a complex topic, involving many variables. When thinking of the variables that affect how a web server performs normally the following come to mind: * Database * CPU * Memory * Disk But one thing that is not mentioned most

System Administration

Setting up a mail server, in itself, is not that difficult a task, but there are integrations that can really mess up with your time and mind. Integrations such as SMTP authentication, setting up virtual users and virtual mailboxes, setting

System Administration