Centric IT

In the last 6 months or so it seems to have become very popular to use open DNS providers such as Google’s Public DNS or OpenDNS. I personally use Google all the time for testing as it’s simple to remember! However these should not be used for daily consumption because they break an important internet [...]

Scenario Background This post is a follow on from my previous post on how to setup a load balanced high availability Apache cluster and uses the same network setup and heartbeat setup. For the purposes of testing and to save on resource I am using the web servers from the previous guide as the MySQL servers in [...]

I wrote this for a PHP/MySQL site that needed to have it’s databases backed up hourly and the whole site including uploads backed up daily. They wanted all databases going back 24 hours every hour, and then all content going back 7 days every day.  This creates a directory structure that looks like the following: In [...]

Getting PHP and oracle to play nice is a massive pain, so this post is more a log for myself next time I have to do it more than anything else! The procedure requires you to compile PHP from source, so if thats not your thing or your easily scared don’t bother continuing! Firstly an enormous yum [...]