Capacity Planning

How to Use Percona XtraBackup for MySQL Hot Backups on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Percona XtraBackup for MySQL Hot Backups on RHEL 7

How to Use Percona XtraBackup for MySQL Hot Backups on RHEL 7 Taking reliable backups of a live MySQL or MariaDB database without interrupting application traffic is a fundamental requirement for any production system. mysqldump works for small databases but locks tables and can run for hours on large datasets. Percona XtraBackup solves this problem […]

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How to Install ClickHouse Columnar Database on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install ClickHouse Columnar Database on RHEL 7

How to Install ClickHouse Columnar Database on RHEL 7 ClickHouse is an open-source columnar database management system developed by Yandex, designed specifically for online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads. Unlike traditional row-oriented databases, ClickHouse stores data by column, enabling it to read only the columns needed for a query and compress similar data together — resulting […]

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How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 7

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 7 Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker. For production environments requiring high availability and horizontal scalability, Redis offers two complementary mechanisms: Redis Cluster for automatic data sharding across multiple nodes, and Redis Sentinel for automatic failover of […]

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How to Back Up PostgreSQL with pg_dump and pg_basebackup on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Back Up PostgreSQL with pg_dump and pg_basebackup on RHEL 7

How to Back Up PostgreSQL with pg_dump and pg_basebackup on RHEL 7 A reliable backup strategy is one of the most critical operational requirements for any PostgreSQL deployment. On RHEL 7, PostgreSQL provides several complementary backup tools suited to different recovery scenarios: pg_dump for logical, per-database backups that can be restored selectively; pg_dumpall for capturing […]

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How to Back Up and Restore MySQL Databases with mysqldump on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Back Up and Restore MySQL Databases with mysqldump on RHEL 7

How to Back Up and Restore MySQL Databases with mysqldump on RHEL 7 Regular database backups are the single most important operational task for any MySQL administrator. mysqldump is the built-in logical backup utility that ships with every MySQL and MariaDB installation — it produces plain-text SQL files that can be compressed, transferred off-site, and […]

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How to Configure MySQL Primary-Replica Replication on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure MySQL Primary-Replica Replication on RHEL 7

How to Configure MySQL Primary-Replica Replication on RHEL 7 MySQL replication allows data written to one server (the primary, formerly called master) to be automatically copied to one or more other servers (replicas, formerly called slaves). This is one of the most widely deployed MySQL high-availability techniques: it provides read-scale-out by offloading SELECT queries to […]

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How to Install MongoDB on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install MongoDB on RHEL 7

How to Install MongoDB on RHEL 7 MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in flexible, JSON-like BSON documents rather than traditional rows and columns. Its schema-less design makes it an excellent choice for applications that need to handle varied or rapidly evolving data structures, such as content management systems, real-time analytics platforms, […]

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How to Monitor Nginx with Prometheus nginx-exporter on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Nginx with Prometheus nginx-exporter on RHEL 7

How to Monitor Nginx with Prometheus nginx-exporter on RHEL 7 Monitoring your Nginx web server with Prometheus and Grafana gives you real-time visibility into request rates, connection states, error rates, and server performance over time. The Prometheus ecosystem works through a scrape model: an exporter process exposes metrics at an HTTP endpoint in a text […]

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How to Set Up a LEMP Stack on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a LEMP Stack on RHEL 7

How to Set Up a LEMP Stack on RHEL 7 A LEMP stack — Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP — is one of the most common foundations for modern dynamic web applications. On RHEL 7 the individual components are available from a combination of the base repositories, the EPEL community repository, the official MySQL community […]

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How to Configure Nginx FastCGI Caching on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx FastCGI Caching on RHEL 7

How to Configure Nginx FastCGI Caching on RHEL 7 FastCGI caching in Nginx allows you to store responses from your PHP backend — typically PHP-FPM — directly on disk or in memory, serving subsequent identical requests without re-executing PHP. On a busy RHEL 7 server this can reduce backend load by an order of magnitude, […]

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