How nice! Godaddy is requesting from you 150$ if your harddisk has a wrong boot sector or something like that! They just do remove your old disk, mount new disk and mount your old disk as secondary where this process is cost free in all dedicated companies (that i ever use).

But response time is great. It took one day to finish the job (after you pay 150 bucks)

Yeah it’s much for a harddisk removal but it’s worth if you ever waited 15 days for it!

And of course i’m agree with you about the idea : “Hosting companies has found a new generation of squeezing money from its customers! That’s owned boot sector or hacked partition table!“

mySQL is a performance devil if you’re using it on your localhost or LAN. But using it on internet as a remote storage server is not mean the performance you got will performance you got in your localhost or LAN.

If you want me to sample it with an absolute ratio i can clearly say that if you’re getting 100% performance in your localhost or LAN you’ll get 15% performance while you’re connecting remote mySQL server over tcp/ip.

There is a one configuration that you can increase performance about 5 to 15 percent. That’s to disable name resolving on mySQL. You can do this by adding a line in your mySQL config (my.cnf or my.ini) after [mysqld] line (if you’re using mysqld standart daemon) : skip-name-resolve

You can test it if you want. This will make move your remote connection performance from 15% to 20 to 30%.

But infact this performance increasement will not fit your needs. It’s still so slow for me to use it. Thus please think twice if you’re willing to use mySQL as a remote database server for your client applications. ( Yeah but still it rocks on localhost or LAN )

You can check how mySQL uses DNS resolve from this document. ( Document mirror on focus on code (16KB) )

I’m using Wordpress Mu and Drupal in some of my sites.

But when you want to use wordress mu and use drupal as a service for multiple subdomains you need to do some changes on configurations of server. ( In here i must thank to one of my friend )

Here’s how you do it on a plesk powered server :

1. There’s a folder in named conf in the domain you want to configure. The path will be like this : /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf. Create a file with a name vhost.conf to there (using pico vhost.conf for ex). Write a line ServerAlias *.domain.com in it. And save it.

2. Open plesk. Go to domain’s DNS settings. Add an A record *.domain.com

After all run this command : /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -v -a

That’ll help.