Cloudatcost, the canadian cheap & flat cloud VPS provider (partner of @Fibernetics) seems to have really serious problems on the devops side. I already talked here about their infamous backdoor user (“wikus”) on their Debian 8 x64 VPS images (this seems to be solved by now).

Sometime you need to reset MySQL password on a server you have root access to. Here’s a step-by-step how-to to accomplish this task on a CentOS 6 server.