Bryce McDonnell

In my backup script I previously posted, we begin by dumping the entire contents of the database to a file. This is not necessarily a good idea and there may be better ways to backup your data. However, the total size of my database is only a few MBs so it isn’t worth the hassle [...]

I am becoming a better systems administrator every day secondary to my work as a ruby on rails and PHP developer. As a very small development shop I have very limited resources to perform the backup and recovery policies bigger shops and huge enterprises employ.
However, after just a morning of futzing with a few [...]

I recently read this article at FastCompany’s website about Linux: the open source, freely available operating system. While it technically competes with Windows and Mac OS X, most users have probably never heard of it. Most data center admins probably couldn’t live without it. It has a commanding lead in the enterprise hosting space and [...]