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Upgrade to Sphinx and PBXT for ZuFeed.com

Although ZuFeed has been up and running for almost 2 years now, those who use it regularly (especially me) will have noticed that sometimes searches and collections time out and not load at all. Other times a collection may take 30 seconds to load. Never fear! A solution is at hand!

Mageia or Mandriva? Review, decision & migration.

Those who follow the Linux news will know that part of the team at Mandriva forked the distribution and started Mageia. At the announcement of the forking in Sep 2010, I was quite worried as to where this would leave me. As I have many servers, desktops, and laptops spread between many friends, family and [...]

RoundCube Webmail Upgrade

I’d got a bit behind with my RoundCube updates recently and had been stuck on the 0.3 series goodness. It was running so well I didn’t want to change it. However the time has come to start work on some new plugins, and that requires the newer editions. So over the past week we’ve moved from [...]

CyprixRPMS and Nginx upgrade

It’s been a while (12 months) since nginx was last updated for Mandriva 2010.0 which has left my server running 0.8.17 for a long time. However since nginx is currently at 0.8.35 and the 0.8 branch has now gone stable along with many new features and bug fixes (see the changelog), I thought now was [...]

New server (with photos)

As part of an overall upgrade for my systems, I’m moving to a brand new server. It’s my first rackmount server at 1U high and will be going into a colocation centre soonish. It will be running a variety of applications including: Mandriva Linux 2010.0 Web Serving: Nginx, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3 Mail: Postfix, Dovecot, [...]