You can download it at http://plugins.serverdensity.com/couchdb/

It’s a straight forward plugin that exposes all your databases statistics to SD for monitoring allowing you to fully customise your graphs/alerts.

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So after a bit of web scouring about how to get Java to trust your site I came across instructions and thought I’d re-post here simplified for anyone who needs to query HTTPS from RESTClient.

These instructions are based on Windows 64-bit and Java being installed into C:\Program Files (x86)\Java. So you may have to change a few paths but the core things are the same.

Navigate to the website in your browser, click the SSL icon in the address bar and click Certificate Information or Details etc.

In the window that pops up, go to the Details tab then click the “Copy to File” button. Click Next until you get to the request for a Filename. Click Browse and navigate to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\lib\security”. Enter the filename to save the certificate as (I suggest the domain name with .cer ending). Finally click Next and Finish.

Now open up a command prompt (if you’ve got Windows security then be sure to run as administrator [right click the shortcut to the command prompt and the option is there]) and enter the following:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6"
bin\keytool.exe -noprompt -import -keystore lib\security\cacerts
     -alias (put_domain_name_here)
     -file lib\security\(name_of_certificate_you_saved_above).cer

The second command should all be on one line. You’ll get asked for a password, if you’ve never touched any Java passwords on your machine before, it’ll probably be the certificate store default which is either changeit or changeme.

That’s it! You should now be able to query your service using HTTPS without any errors.

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1. Stop the current MySQL instance from running:
   /etc/init.d/mysql stop
2. Run mysql with –skip-grant-tables
   /usr/bin/mysqld_safe –basedir=/usr –datadir=/var/lib/mysql –user=mysql –pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid –socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock –port=3306 –skip-grant-tables &
3. Log into mysql, straight into the mysql database
   mysql -u root mysql
4. Reset the root password.
   UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘newrootpassword’) WHERE User=’root’;
5. Flush privileges
   flush privileges;
6. Shut down the new running mysql.
   /etc/init.d/mysql stop
7. Start up mysql as usual.
   /etc/init.d/mysql start

Et voila, you now have a new root password without needing to know the old one!

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There pricing is one of their best features, you can get a “single node” VPS with some basic specs of 400Mhz processor, 256MB RAM, 10GB storage and 250GB bandwidth (what this site is running on currently) for £15 a month. £15 may seem a little steep to some people to start with but when you realise this is for your own root access Virtual Server (i.e. you can pretty much do anything you want with it like it was at home) it isn’t that bad at all! What makes it better though is, as you buy more nodes, the price comes down for each additional node, so the first node may be £15, but the second is only £14 and so on all the way down to £9 per node.

VPS.net‘s idea of nodes is also very cool. You can buy up to 16 nodes that work as one VPS, and you can change this at any time. Lets say you were me with one node and suddenly you got a surge of visitors and it just couldn’t handle the load anymore, not a problem, simply buy an extra node, attach it to the VPS and you’ll immediately get the benefit of it, no need to re-install your VPS or anything!

They also have automated full node backups for £4 a month too, they take a daily, weekly and monthly backup that you can restore from at any time, so if you totally screw up your server, just hit yesterday’s backup and voila! Back to normal again. Not only that, if the actual server your VPS is on decides it’s time to die, they’ll boot your VPS up on another server within minutes, that doesn’t cost and is part of the service.

If your demands are for a webserver, they have free DNS management tools as well so you don’t have to use an external service, just point your domain at their nameservers.

So in summary, if you’re looking for a reliable, fast, cheap place to host a website or host nodes to perform data analysis, I’d certainly give VPS.net a go.

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