When I initially started out with using VPS, I had tons of problems with Apache but quickly switched to Nginx which has proven to be more than a boon because it meant that I could do more with less. However, having used WordPress I have come to know that the system is not necessarily scalable in itself when it comes to self-hosted websites.

Migrate from MyISAM to InnoDB in MySQL safely and easily. Learn how to migrate from MyISAM to InnoDB in MySQL by keeping backups and not breaking your website.

Open core maintains a feeling of goodwill while taking away the aesthetic value of these freedoms. With this move, Oracle shows that it has the right to distribute MySQL components as commercial products.

MySQL.com database has been compromised by Blind SQL Injection. MySQL databases and tables leaked through a security breach carried out through an SQL Injection.

According to a developer survey conducted by Jaspersoft, Java and MySQL has not been affected much by Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. In fact, they are doing quite well under Oracle.

Auto Backup for MySQL is a MySQL Backup Solution which allows users to schedule the backing up and restoring of your remote and local MySQL Database.

Facebook is now a part of 2010 TopCoder(R) Open as a sponsor. It also has plans of taking in winners as interns and full time employees.

Oracle clarified its plans to continue improving MySQL, and do it even better than Sun. Not only this, Edward Screven said, Oracle aims to improve many of MySQL features to make them compatible with Oracle apps.

MySQL fans from around the world have joined forces to save the project from going into the hands of database giant Oracle, which is set out to buy Sun Microsystems.

MySQL founder Michael Widenius pleads users to act against the Sun Microsystems and Oracle deal by writing to the European Commission. The Oracle and Sun still hangs in balance due to European Comission intervension in the deal.

Cavium Networks, a maker of network and media processors, announced it’s acquisition of MontaVista , an Embedded Linux Software provider for 50 million dollars. The acquisition marks a continuation in the trend of acquisition of open source software companies.

jobberBase is a free and open source server software that gets you a job board site up in minutes. It’s based on Php and MySql and licensed under a MIT license – which in non geek speak means that you can use the application for commercial purposes.

MySQL is the preferred database for WordPress, however not everyone likes MySQL and there is no easy alternative to make WordPress use another database.

We are pretty paranoid about having daily backups of our MySQL database for this site, and in the past have written a easy tutorial to create backups of MySQL database in under a minute. However not everyone is command prompt savvy, or you may want to create backups in a different way. Noupe.com has come [...]