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can you give me feedback on an HA architecture using linux-ha and pacemaker?
I am trying to come up with an architecture for achieving HA on one of our services (in-house service, single tcp connection for all requests). Just started reading on linux-ha and pacemaker, and i'd ...
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What architecture to choose for application [closed]
I want to create a mobile ERP system for school in which all the tracking and managing can be done via a single mobile based application.
I am using .net for my backend and phonegap as the front end ...
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architectual issue: few requests from client to server
I'm developing web application (javascript + php) and I have architectual issue. I have to send 4 requests to server. First will gather basic information (effectivity is OK), then after receiving data ...
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Architectural advice - web camera remote access [closed]
I'm looking for architectural advice. I have a client who I've built a website for which essentially allows users to view their web cameras remotely.
The current flow of data is as follows:
User ...
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Commercial router architecture vs. standard computer architecture? [closed]
Could someone offer insight as to how the architecture of current commercial routers, (in particular their network processors), differs from the usual computer architectures? What's the main ...
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One active directory server for one geographical site?
we have an 2008 R2 active directory server on our main site. Recently we opened a small secondary site. My question is pretty simple : our 2 sites are connected with a VPN, is it mandatory for us to ...
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Does using x86_64 on a low end server impact performance?
I have a server with 128 MB of RAM. Would it be stupid of me to install Debian 6 x86_64 instead of i386? Would there be any difference in how well the server performs?
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Building hybrid RAID10 + RAID5 environment
I have the following configuration: simple video surveillance system (server 1: recording past 24h; server 2: recording past 30 days). I am primarily using the content on the 24h storage, while I ...
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What are EN, EP and EX platforms?
I keep hearing all these terms - EN, EP and EX level servers. What do these terms mean? What are they classifications of? How are they demarcated from one another? How are they different from the thin ...
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Storing pages with only client-side code in S3 over full EC2?
Question:
Would storing pages in S3 with only client-side code reduce costs in comparison to hosting them in Amazon's EC2?
Background:
Right now I use a cms to manage all of my pages and users for a ...
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What is the standard system architecture for MongoDB
I know this question is too vague, so I would like to add some key numbers to give insights about what the scenario is
Each Document size - 360KB
Total Documents - 1.5 million
Document created/day ...
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How to set up Development, Staging, Production, and QA environments
I am in the process of setting up new servers for an organization. What are the standards or best practices for setting up a new environment with Development, Testing, Staging, and Production (or I'm ...
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Architecting your network when you run out of VLANs
This is an entirely hypothetical question, I'm not in this situation now.
What happens to your VLAN topology and routing if you run a multi tenant network and you have more than 4096 customers?
Do ...
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Best infrastructure configuration for application hosting (IIS/MSSQL)? Bare Metal, Virtualize?
We're a small consulting shop that hosts some public facing websites and web applications for clients (apps we've either written or inherited). Our strength lies in coding, not necessarily in server ...
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Reverse Proxy Server and Webserver architecture
I'm very confused.
If I setup a Reverse Proxy Server, does this mean that I need a second computer? Or can both Server (e.g. nginx as reverse proxy server and apache as webserver) run on the same ...
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Hyper-V and Fail over cluster 2 nodes Virtualizing DC and Secondery DC
I am building a new network for a company from scratch (50 user/Computer)
They need
1-Domain Controler ( Only one Domain at the moment )
2-MS Exechange Server
3-File Server
4-SQL/Database Server ...
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Dedicated Server Specification Advice for MYSQL/PHP Website
Im buying a dedicated server to run an existing website which receives 90,000 visitors per day. The specification is below. The website isnt too complicated, mainly mysql searches of a table ...
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How does Amazon handle all that email for their Kindle personal document service? [closed]
Amazon basically gives every Kindle owner an email address to which they can email documents that will be converted to .mobi format and synced to their Kindle. I thought this was pretty interesting, ...
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Backend infrastructure for a social game to be deployed on Facebook, Web and Mobile phones [closed]
The game in question is ditto like Diamond Dash. You can play it here
It will be an HTML5 game. Mostly there'll be writes more than reads and once the player completes a play session, the high score ...
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Switches and the amount of load
Out of curiosity does anyone know whether it would be more beneficial to have more switches with less terminals on each leading to your main switch OR load up each switch fully before having any ...
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Firewall with layer 3 switch or without it?
I am trying to make a simple network architecture for a small company.
One of the sites is built of a firewall (to create a DMZ, to make the VPN between the sites) and three switches, like in link ...
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How does a SAN architecture work and more importantly scale?
I'm trying to understand some SAN infrastructure and I was hoping some of you with more experience than me could help me understand scaling with a SAN.
Imagine that you have some computer servers ...
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Running background jobs In a clustered environment
I have an architecture question. In a clustered web app environment, I can think of three ways to deal with background jobs:
have a dedicated machine run all the jobs, thus freeing the web servers ...
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CMS Architecture - Synchronizing Dev/Test/Staging environments
We have a code, content and DB flow that follows a typical pattern:
Dev->Build->Staging->Prod
The kicker is that the client is editing and publishing content only in Prod.
So our current strategy ...
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Varnish/Nginx/Apache/APC/Memcached
I'm setting up a new web server and was wondering if the following is a valid stack:
Varnish in front to cache and split traffic between nginx for static content and Apache with mod_php for dynamic ...
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Is it possible to set up multiple named instances running on a SQl Server 2008 R2 Active/Passive Cluster?
I'm trying to plan a SQL Server 2008 R2 2 node Active/Passive failover cluster.
Is it possible to set up multiple named instances running on the cluster? e.g.
sqlcluster sqlcluster\demo ...
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Memcached and Mysql architecture
Right now we have 2 servers.
webserver + memcached
mysql server
the mysql server is a new and a strong server and it is not being utilized fully. I was debating if I should migrate the memcached ...
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Number of Physical NICs for ESXi Host or Am I Missing the Boat?
First, please excuse my ignorance on this topic. Until recently I had been blissfully ignorant of this field and only recently began to suspect that I'd need to become directly involved. In any case ...
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Server architecture for statistical analysis [closed]
I am currently standing before a decision on how to design a system that would handle computing of statistical data on the cloud.
I would like to know what server structure should I use to be able to ...
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SQL Server 2000 HIGH CPU Usage with BusinessObjects reports (unsolvable?)
I have one of those weird questions, those ones that are nearly unsolvable (the only way to really solve them is to throw out the technology and buy new ones). I've had a number of experts (about 10 ...
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Installing Windows Server 2008 Once or XP three times?
I have an application which makes use of Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010. This application performs some tasks requested by a user and then closes. I am going to be putting my application on a virtualised ...
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Servers architecture and organization for hosting multiple apps [closed]
What can you give as advise for a small web based software company for hosting different web apps for different clients... ?
We develop custom Rails, Django or Lithium(php5.3) apps for our customers ...
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apache & mod_pagespeed + varnish question
I have the following architecture on the web layer.
Varnish <-> Apache2 (mod_pagespeed <-> mod_jk) <-> Tomcat
^ ^ ^
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Book Recommendations for Technical/Solutions Architecture [closed]
I wish to learn more about Technical and Solutions Architecture. Specifically, I'm concerned with designing HA, Fault-Tolerant Scalable web-based solutions (enough buzzwords ;-). Its a topic I'm ...
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Too many data replication technologies in environment
It is possible to configure remote data replication at many layers of the storage stack. Some examples to explain what I mean by layers:
Physical Volume Layer (TruCopy, SRDF/MirrorView, SnapMirror)
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Building a Linux Network for Our Company - Where Do I Start?
This is going to be a somewhat loaded question. I am programming in a company that has been around since 1962. A lot of things, especially computer / network stuff, is very dated. Let me give a bit ...
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How would an eight-core Pentium 4 compare with a Core 2 Duo? [closed]
Specifically, an eight-core "Paxville" Xeon system clocked at 3 GHz versus the Core 2 Duo system clocked at 2 GHz, ceteris paribus.
This is assuming that the workload is effectively distributed ...
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Large-scale server architecture [closed]
Recently I am on project that would need large scalability. Now, my architecture consists of 4 servers - 1 load balancing server, 2 application servers and 1 database server.
What are the best ...
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Google network architecture
I am aware that this question might be closed as "not a real question", "subjective" or even "argumentative". If this is a mistake, I am sorry.
I am not good at all at networking but I'm trying to ...
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CDN architecture - best practises and designs
I am a developer for a website which is heavily reliant on static content such a pictures, videos etc. Our current setup is very simple, we basically have one server acting as our cdn which in turn ...
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Architecting network with 10 Mbps half duplex phone system
Current Configuration
The diagram below shows our current network architecture. All connections are running at 100 Mbps full duplex with the exception of the TalkSwitch phone systems which run at 10 ...
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Best resources to learn about Best Practice Scaling of IT Architecture
Looking for resources to learn the best practices and basics of scaling a backend infrastructure for an application or a web app. I am interested in Amazon Web Services and really enjoy architecting ...
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Question regarding load-balancing in a clustered server environment
I have a many cluster servers. Each cluster typically has 4 servers. Thousands of users use the cluster. What would be the best strategy to load balance ? Right now every user request is directed in ...
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Suggestions for load-balancing
I have a many cluster servers. Each cluster typically has 4 servers. Thousands of users use the cluster. What would be the best strategy to load balance ? Right now every user request is directed in ...
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Optimal hosting of website and platform api on EC2
We intend to deploy a web site (based on Drupal) and the associated platform api on Amazon EC2. Would like to know what would be a better way to architect this solution w.r.t to instances (meaning ...
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Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancing
I am trying to decide between using a layer 4 load balancing solution for my datacenter or a layer 7 solution. Unfortunately (for my sanity, that is), my use case is simple enough that both solutions ...
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guidelines for large Unix data center setup?
Are there any blogs/ recommended readings on how to setup/configure/manage large ( 500 + ) unix servers in a single / multiple data center ?
I am trying to understand best practices, network design ...
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Reverse Graphical network mapping architecture
Hi everyone i've got the issue to handle a network that has not documentation whatsoever but is there any tool or procedure in order to create the network architecture model, or i should do it node by ...
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Best Practice for deploying PHP on multiple servers
I'm currently deploying some PHP Zend applications on my servers and this is currently what I got.
1st Layer - Load-balancer + Http-cache.
2nd Layer - web-server (will have many more webservers in ...
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How to scale out image hosting/serving?
I asked this question on stackoverflow and it was suggested that I try it here:
I'm building a website where users can upload photos and I'd also convert uploaded photos into thumbnails.
Planning ...
