Moving a MySQL database between servers using a single SSH command

So, the other week, I migrated all my sites over to a new server. This was accomplished with minimum fuss, using lots of rsync magic and juggling of DNS ttls. The part of the migration I imagined would be the most complicated, moving several tens of MySQL databases running on the old server to the […]

Marcus Povey

So, the other week, I migrated all my sites over to a new server. This was accomplished with minimum fuss, using lots of rsync magic and juggling of DNS ttls. The part of the migration I imagined would be the most complicated, moving several tens of MySQL databases running on the old server to the […]

Planned maintenance

This is just a quick note to readers of this website to give you advanced warning of some planned server maintenance. Over the next few days I will be migrating all sites and services over to a new hosting facility. Unfortunately, the migration will necessitate short periods of downtime while I move things over and […]

Marcus Povey

This is just a quick note to readers of this website to give you advanced warning of some planned server maintenance. Over the next few days I will be migrating all sites and services over to a new hosting facility. Unfortunately, the migration will necessitate short periods of downtime while I move things over and […]

LoveNote: Delayed abstract message queue

Helping out a friend and colleague, as well as stretching my programming muscles with a language I don’t often get to play with these days, I’d like to introduce LoveNote Server. LoveNote is a simple abstract message queue server which lets you pass an message payload to one of a pool of endpoints and receive […]

Marcus Povey

Helping out a friend and colleague, as well as stretching my programming muscles with a language I don’t often get to play with these days, I’d like to introduce LoveNote Server. LoveNote is a simple abstract message queue server which lets you pass an message payload to one of a pool of endpoints and receive […]