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How to resolve ‘Got error 28 from storage engine’

A common cause of website and webservice failure is running out of disk space. Either the webserver is no longer able to write to it’s log files and fails completely (resulting in an error page or no connection at all) … Continue reading

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Amazon RDS vs DIY MySQL on EC2 Benchmark

As I was researching online whether Amazon RDS was a viable option, I had a hard time finding reliable benchmarks. The authors of this good book on EC2 mention it to be a bit faster, but without further clarification. The … Continue reading

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