Monthly Archives: January 2018

Found a tutorial gives the following example: $ docker run -d –name=new-mysql -p 6604:3306 -v /storage/docker/mysql-datadir:/var/lib/mysql mysql let’s dissect what we’re passing to docker -d is short for –detach. This runs the container as a daemon in the background –name is the name of the container -p is short for –publish. This is a port […]

Reading up on mySQL, I realized that rather than using Docker or VMs, the simplest thing to do is run multiple mySQL instances from the default installation.  Because the new machines are Ubuntu Linux, this can be controlled from systemd, the daemon that controls services. There is also documentation on mysql.com about using Docker and […]

In the past, I’ve tried running multiple wikis from a single LAMP stack just using different databases for each one. The problem I ran into was that anything that caused one wiki to lock up mysql caused all of the wikis to lock up at the same time. This could happen during when some bot […]