When looking at setting up a cluster there are many ways to do this but when using MariaDB and Galera this is a simple task and can be completed within a very short space of time.

Here I will show how to setup a cluster with 2 nodes ideally you will want 3+ in a production environment (depending o...

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I am going to show you a quick way to move your databases to a new server in this scenario this is for a database server upgrade with as little downtime as possible with complete new hardware.

The first thing to do is login to your existing mysql server and make sure you have your root login detai...

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Logs are really handy when troubleshooting or simply trying to monitor usage of an application the downside to keeping logs is t...

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Monit is a handy program that monitors and manages server programs to make sure that are running and start them if they are not....

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When I create new servers with Proxmox I normally start of with a small disk to cover the expected usage. If like me you find that you need more space the disk will need to be expanded, this is not as hard as you would expect it to be when using LVM.

To expand the disk on your server there are 2 m...

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