databases
Install Valkey on FreeBSD 15 (Redis Fork)
When Redis changed its license to RSAL in 2024, the Linux Foundation forked it as Valkey. FreeBSD’s pkg…
Install Redis 8.0 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 ships Redis 8.0 straight from the official repos, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds.…
Install MySQL 8.4 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with both MySQL 8.4 and MariaDB 11.8 in its default repositories. If you need…
Install Memcached on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Memcached is the caching layer behind most high-traffic PHP and Python applications. It stores key-value pairs in RAM,…
Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Apache, MariaDB, PHP)
The LAMP stack is still the default starting point for most PHP-based web applications. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute…
Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
MariaDB 11.8.6 now ships in Ubuntu 26.04’s main archive. That’s a first. Previous Ubuntu releases kept MariaDB in…
Install LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 8.5)
Most production web stacks on Ubuntu run Nginx over Apache these days. Nginx handles static content and reverse…
Install PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)
Ubuntu 26.04 ships PostgreSQL 18 in its default repositories. No third-party repos, no manual compilation. A single apt…
Deploy Cloud SQL PostgreSQL with Terraform (2026 Guide)
Production Cloud SQL PostgreSQL 17 setup with Terraform. Private IP, IAM auth, backups, read replicas, Auth Proxy for…
Backup MariaDB and MySQL to Amazon S3 on Ubuntu 24.04
Shipping MySQL or MariaDB backups to S3 gets them off the database host and into durable, geographically redundant…
PostgreSQL and MariaDB Backup with Point-in-Time Recovery
File-level backups are useless for databases. If you tar a running PostgreSQL data directory, you get a corrupted…