Etherpad Lite up ’n’ running in 5 minutes

Etherpad Lite is a lightweight version of (probably) the most popular web-based collaborative real-time editor - Etherpad. This great peace of software allows multiple users to edit the same document in real-time. To make collaboration easier, users have built-in chat at their disposal.

Webalizer stats for multiple websites

Webalizer is a web log analysis software licensed under GPL. It’s written in C and it’s super fast in processing access log files. Configuring Webalizer is very easy, especially if your Apache web server combines all access logs into one log file, but I noticed that many people have trouble configuring Webalizer for multiple websites (virtualhosts).

MySQL hot backup with XtraBackup on CentOS

If you are in a need for hot backup solution for MySQL RDBMS, you should try out Percona’s XtraBackup. Now, as you can read on the official website, XtraBackup is the world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases.

Fine tuning cPanel autoresponder interval

If you enabled autoresponder in your cPanel, then you probably noticed that, by default, the sender gets only one autoreponder message every 8 hours. There is nothing wrong with that. In fact, the purpose of this interval setting is to prevent sending a bunch of emails to the sender who sends more then one email to the user who has enabled autoresponder.