How do you setup dual NIC, multi-homed host?

A multi-homed host is known as a computer that has multiple network connections, of which the connections may or may not be the same network. Web hosts and application service providers set up a multihomed router (or system) to connect to two or more upstream Internet Service Providers and set up network redundancy. The term, multihomed, is used to denote that a system is connected to multiple networks.

How to make backups with Linux and Rsync?

As a web host, we needed an automated mechanism for generating snapshots of server filesystems on the Linux-based systems. There are a number of ways to achieve backups on Linux systems including Remote backup using Linux tar/ssh/cron and incremental tar backups on a local file system. One of the drawbacks of using tar to perform an entire filesystem backup is that some systems do not have the ability to create a compressed tarball greater than 2GB in size.

How do you customize Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)?

Have you tried to customize the Google CSE search box to fit your website theme, and having difficulty implementing it? You're not alone. I've browsed Google CSE documentation for some time, but this information is buried under the hood, and took me a while to figure this out. This is a 2-page Search & Results page design. You'll style the form element however you wish to design.

How to change the date.timezone in Linux/PHP?

If your date.timezone is not properly set, your web application will not display your local time correctly. The default date.timezone will be set to the server time zone. If you (or your company) are located in a different time zone from the server, you may have to override the value in your PHP application. The date.timezone can be set at the system level, PHP level, or application level.

[SOLVED] ERROR 1206 (HY000): The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size

We have a customized Openbravo POS v2.2 running with a dozen workstations operating 24x7 a year around. The size of the database has grown to 10GB, and the performance started to degrade so we decided to archive old data and start fresh. According to the Openbravo POS administrative guide, we performed a DELETE operation on transaction data.

How to display PHP errors?

On a production server, you will definitely want to turn off errors from displaying on the screen due to security and usability reasons but what do you do when you're on a development machine trying to debug a malfunctioning PHP script? PHP gives a programmer the ability to control the logging of errors, and the types of errors to be displayed. You may enable PHP error display in one of two ways.