Found this great script for automatically backing up local mysql databases to local backup storage.  Details can be found in this post The scripts itself lives here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/files/

July 18th, 2009 | mysql | No Comments »

http://www.freespeedtest.com/ very handy for convincing your hosting company that there really is a problem.

July 7th, 2009 | apache | No Comments »