You know, over the past 8 years I have been through at least 10 different web hosts.  This is partially my fault - I’m an extremely picky customer.  I demand that a company has excellent customer support and maintains all of their guarantees, namely uptime. I can say after all of these years, I have finally [...]

I am pleased to announce that I have released phpWatch v1.0.6 Beta and it is now available for download. phpWatch is a general purpose service monitor that is able to send notifications of outages via e-mail or text-message (SMS). The purpose of this system is two-fold: it allows administrators to easily check the status of [...]

I have wanted a way to send and receive text-messages (SMS) with PHP for some time now. The main problem isn’t that it is impossible — there are dozens of companies that provide PEAR or other gateways that do exactly this — it is the fact that I do not want to pay every [...]

It isn't pretty but I wrote this little script which saves 10 full mySQL backups (compressed) to a specified directory.

export DIR="BACKUP DIRECTORY HERE"
export UNAME="MYSQL USERNAME HERE"
export PASS="MYSQL PASSWORD HERE"
### End Config ###
printf "Starting at "
date "+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S"
printf "Rotating Backup files..."

These methods will most likely seem basic to a seasoned web host but until I was forced to switch web hosts I never had to seamlessly move sites between servers.

Almost all clients used numerous mySQL databases that had content being accessed 24/7 (forums and purchase requests to name two). Any entries that were added on the old server had to be placed on the new server in real time.

To start this blogging shindig I thought I’d share my story of why I even have this domain. It all starts with my old web host which was owned by a single guy (and no I don’t mean he wasn’t married) running a server leased from ThePlanet. About three months ago I started noticing my [...]