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The folks at Peer 1 are at it again and as noted earlier this week in theWHIR News they have added a $10,000 contest to make things even more interesting.

Episode 2 of the "Growing Pains" video series is also humorous although not as funny as the first episode I must say. What I would have loved to see is a quick recap of the first episode at the beginning to refresh my memory.

To win the $10,000 grand prize which consists of 12 months of managed hosting at PEER 1 ($6,500 value), an Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch 2.5 GHz Laptop (approximate value $2,500) and a Sony HD Camcorder HDRSR10 (approximate value $1,000) you would need to upload your short video and share your web hosting growing pains, funny dealings in running your online business or troubles in getting it off the ground. If you video is selected you could be a winner.

I have noticed that folks in the Web hosting industry tend to be a little shy so I do hope to see some interesting and laugh out loud funny video entries. Good Luck to one and all and let us know if you submit a video, theWHIR readers would love to give you a preliminary review.

What do you think of this "Growing Pains" episode?

The folks at Peer 1 are at it again and as noted earlier this week in theWHIR News they have added a $10,000 contest to make things even more interesting.

Episode 2 of the "Growing Pains" video series is also humorous although not as funny as the first episode I must say. What I would have loved to see is a quick recap of the first episode at the beginning to refresh my memory.

To win the $10,000 grand prize which consists of 12 months of managed hosting at PEER 1 ($6,500 value), an Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch 2.5 GHz Laptop (approximate value $2,500) and a Sony HD Camcorder HDRSR10 (approximate value $1,000) you would need to upload your short video and share your web hosting growing pains, funny dealings in running your online business or troubles in getting it off the ground. If you video is selected you could be a winner.

I have noticed that folks in the Web hosting industry tend to be a little shy so I do hope to see some interesting and laugh out loud funny video entries. Good Luck to one and all and let us know if you submit a video, theWHIR readers would love to give you a preliminary review.

What do you think of this "Growing Pains" episode?

Upgrading Plesk from 7.5.x to 8.x will change your Plesk-related MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB. This allows for better concurrency in the Plesk panel when a lot of users are logged in simultaneously. However, some server administrators will disable InnoDB support in MySQL to save resources. This will cause problems after the upgrade.

Plesk may display an error on a white page that looks something like:

Cannot initialize InnoDB

This could mean that InnoDB support was disabled when MySQL was started. To correct this issue, search through the /etc/my.cnf for this line:

skip-innodb

If you find it in your configuration, remove it, and then restart MySQL. To test that InnoDB is enabled, you can refresh the Plesk page, or you can log into MySQL and run SHOW ENGINES. The output from the SHOW ENGINES statement should show YES on the line with InnoDB.

Should DISABLED appear instead, you may have an issue with your InnoDB configuration in your /etc/my.cnf. Be sure to check for innodb_data_file_path and make sure that it is set to an appropriate value.

A value of NO is not a good sign. This means that your version of MySQL was compiled without InnoDB support. This means that it cannot be enabled at runtime because MySQL wasn’t built with any support for InnoDB. Be sure to recompile MySQL with --with-innodb or obtain a new package for your operating system which includes InnoDB support.

If you suspect that your MySQL InnoDB configuration is incorrect, you may want to review this documentation on MySQL’s site:

For MySQL 5: 13.2.3. InnoDB Configuration
For MySQL 4/3.23: 13.2.4. InnoDB Configuration