Yandex Search Engine

While “Google” may be ubiquitous with “search” for most users in the United States and much of the world, there are still several other strong contenders that many people know nothing about. One such example, from Russia, is Yandex.

Getting your website indexed by this search engine is easy.

  1. Visit the webmaster website at https://webmaster.yandex.com/addurl.xml
  2. Register for an account, you can use single-sign-on from many social media websites such as Facebook, Google or Twitter.
  3. Click “Add Site” or “Add URL”
  4. Enter your domain name and submit
  5. There are several methods provided, easiest to implement is usually ‘txt’ file, as you can execute a Linux/Unix command line “touch” to create the empty file on the server as needed.
  6. Verify that your site is now linked to your account
  7. Site indexing can take a while, if it is not already indexed, in the meantime you can now modify some information about your domain(s).

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Install MySQL database on Ubuntu and add new user.

Installing MySQL on Ubuntu requires only a few simple steps.

  1. sudo apt-get install mysql-server
  2. sudo netstat -tap | grep mysql
  3. sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf
  4. sudo service mysql restart

To look for some simple performance and security suggestions:

  1. sudo apt-get install mysqltuner
  2. mysqltuner

Adding a new user is equally easy…

  1. mysql --user=root --password=mypassword mysql
  2. CREATE USER 'myusername'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mydatabase'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

NOTE: This allows access to the user from ALL hosts, it can be limited by replacing the '%' with a specific hostname (such as ‘localhost’ if desired) for security.

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