Category Archives: MySQL

MySQL named locks

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Paul

Until recently, I’ve only run PHP sites on single host setups, which has kept things reasonably simple. However, I’ve moved one project to a load balanced solution, which randomly sends requests to one of two servers – unless one server … Continue reading →

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Special characters in passwords

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Paul

Recently I moved our website at work from one hosting provider to another. As we have several instances of the site (testing, demo, live etc.), each with their own separate database, I moved them one at a time, starting with … Continue reading →

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