Ünsal Korkmaz's questions

I am trying to understand possibilities if i need in future. I am preparing to open a network on WordPress MultiSite with HyperDB. I want to let users open subdomain sites with registration and i need a solution for using a 2nd server when need.

There is 1 main site and subdomains are not connecting each other. I need somehow forward requests to other server if blog_id > 50000 There is some "old" duscussions about it: http://codex.wordpress.org/How_to_Scale_WPMU

The idea is to receive all incoming requests on a single HTTP server. This server, using mod_proxy and mod_rewrite, will route requests to X backend servers, acting as a reverse proxy.

Well, I am barely managing a server and really newbie on this area. How can i do this?

I have this server setup: http://www.server4you.com/root-server/server-details.php?products=5

That gives an extra 60 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD hard-disk. I don't want to use it as storage. What should i do with it? Can i use it like extra ram or something for mySQL cache? What's your opinion?

Lets say i have a big backup.tar.gz file in a remote ftp server. I needed some files from it but i dont want to download/untar all of it. Just specific files/folder. normally this is code to select files from a tar.gz file:

tar zxf backup.tar.gz /the/file/you/want

but.. from ftp server without downloading it? Is it possible?

I have a new server. The hosting gives me a ftp account for backing up the main server. My problem is, I can only connect to this ftp account from the server. I don't like surfing inside folders via putty. I am WinSCP to browse folders and editing files on my server via SSH. It has a good windows-like interface.. folders etc.

Can I connect to that remote ftp account on the server with WinSCP or a program that allows it? Basically it needs to connect to my server via SSH then connect to the ftp account from the main server.

Update ( @Phil explained better) You have a server (lets call it LiveServer) and your hosting provider has given you some FTP space on a different server (lets call it FTPServer) that you can use for backups.

You can only access FTPServer From LiveServer - after all, its just there to use for backups of that server

You want to know if there is a way of somehow getting access to the FTP server from your home PC by going via the LiveServer using SSH or something similar.

My dream setup: php 5.3.6 + mysql 5.5.10 on Apache2, FastCGI, PHP-FPM, APC with nginx 1.0 front end reverse proxy. And as free server management panel: Virtualmin GPL on centos 5.6

In a new centos 5.6 setup. Using this code for installing virtualmin:

wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

After setup, i see php is 5.1 and mysql is 5.0 version. And system not supporting php-fpm but supporting fcgid wrapper. I did following changes:

wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/x86_64/epel-release-1-1.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm epel-release*.rpm

yum install yum-plugin-replace

yum remove mysql.i386
yum replace mysql --replace-with mysql55
service mysqld restart
chkconfig mysqld on
mysql_upgrade --password=1234

yum replace php --replace-with php53u

yum install php53u-fpm php53u-pecl-apc
service httpd restart

chkconfig php-fpm on
service php-fpm start

I am not sure why virtualmin installing both mysql.i386 and 64 bit version together but needed to remove one of them for using yum replace. So i had php 5.3.6 + mysql 5.5.10 with PHP-FPM, APC installed. But virtualmin not supporting PHP-FPM + fastcgi and its still running on fcgid.

I am ultra newbie on server management so i couldnt find workaround after this. I want to switch fcgid wrapper to PHP-FPM + fastcgi at least for 1 virtual server. And if i can find a fix for this section, i want to setup nginx 1.0 as front end reverse proxy for serving static files and passing php files to apache. http://nginxcp.com/ is what i want but its for cpanel.