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Best hosted, web-accessible datastore for millions of small documents? [closed]
I have several gigabytes of documents (perhaps growing into terabytes in time) which I wish to store online somewhere in a system I can access from multiple servers using HTTP requests.
These are ...
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Setting up centralized storage (e.g., NAS/SAN) for a SaaS application
I have a SaaS application running on 6+ servers in HPCloud which creates large amounts of data (GB/TB). Users talk to the application through a RESTful api which replies back with a link to our CDN ...
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Active Directory in the cloud
My company is considering implementing Active Directory and Windows Server to manage our local network and workstations. The main benefits sought are central management of machines, security ...
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Adding a new location through Active Directory. How should it be done?
Our entire Active Directory forest is currently on a single 10/8 private subnet. We're looking to migrate most of our servers to a cloud provider, but I'm not sure how to set up the first domain ...
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What's difference between private datacenter, and public cloud datacenter [closed]
I'm very confused to understand what a cloud datacenter actually is.
In my experience, the main services of a data center are the following:
Renting rackspace
Rack colocation
Server locating on ...
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Comparing public cloud provider (Microsoft Azure, Google Apps for Business, Rackspace and Amazon AWS) [closed]
I am doing my master degree thesis on "Security on testing of public cloud application". In one section, I am comparing the current four public cloud provider Microsoft Azure, Google Apps for ...
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How many 512mb VPSs per physical server [closed]
I am curious to know what kind of setup services like Rackspace cloud, Slicehost, etc are running. If anyone is familiar with these types of offerings and has any insights please share.
Looking here, ...
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Creating a Single Sign On Solution
We are currently moving our organisations e-mail system to Google and most of our companies applications will move to SaaS applications (Huddle, Salesforce etc). I am looking to implement some kind of ...
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Deciding between shared or cloud or VPS or dedicated hosting for a Wordpress + Moodle powered web application [closed]
I have to host a web application which is powered by a wordpress + moodle LMS + custom php application, expected traffic around 1000 clicks per day, traffic will scale slowly.. which hosting is best ...
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Tools for gathering metrics about physical environment for use in virtualization/cloud planning?
I'm looking for tools that will work on either Linux/Unix or Windows Server that for a given set of servers in an enterprise environent, will:
Identify the server [via hostname, or some other unique ...
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Apache running as reverse proxy using proxy balancer traffic does not seem to get distributed evenly
We have Apache running as reverse proxy using proxy balancer we run a jMeter load test from 7 Cloud machines but the traffic does not seem to get distributed evenly I'm thinking it's an Apache config ...
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Moving all internal servers to the cloud
Background
One of my clients is an IT-dependent workflow-driven law firm with about 50 seats. They have been audited by one of their clients (an FSA regulated mortgage lender) and told that their ...
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Pimp my cloud server [migrated]
I am trying to consolidate all my home servers(HTPC,HTTP,FTP,etc) into a single system along with gaining a ton of network storage. So at the beginning of last year I started buying hardware, then I ...
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Cloud SMTP Services / or load balancing [closed]
We are using centOS, and belongs for email marketing but we face a problem during email relay regarding SMTP, my servers are exhausted due to extra relay on some are stay unused. means load in ...
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How to move files between two S3 buckets with minimum cost?
I have millions of files in a Amazon S3 bucket and I'd like to move these files to other buckets and folders with minimum cost or no cost if possible. All buckets are in the same zone.
How could I ...
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How to manage hotspot web-filtering, centrally, for several hotspots?
I manage a number of public hotspots, at different sites, with routers running the dd-wrt firmware and I now want to (centrally) control the websites they have access to. So, my idea initially was to ...
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Multiple host and cloud network between them, how to properly setup gateway and dnat?
this is the actual configuration:
Host1 (public ip1)
Host2 (public ip2)
each host has these interfaces
bridge vmbr1 (ip 10.8.0.1 on host1, 10.8.0.2 on host2)
bridge vmbr2 (ip 192.168.1.1 on both ...
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Alternative Local or Cloud Controlled Wireless networks
I'm looking for advice on how to implement our office Wifi network. If possible we'd like to have cloud managed tools and also minimize costs.
Desired Features
Mainly we want to be able to easily ...
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Is it more stable to run Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal on EC2?
For example, Instagram said
"We run Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (“Natty Narwhal”) on Amazon EC2. We’ve found previous versions of Ubuntu had all sorts of unpredictable freezing episodes on EC2 under high ...
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Monitor Number of VMs on each Eucalyptus Node
I have setup a small Eucalyptus based cloud for my company. I would like to use Nagios to track the load on the Node Controller systems to keep track of how many VMs are deployed on each controller. ...
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Strategy to take cloud (amazon aws) backups
I need to take different type of backups(code backup, database backup, user uploaded files backup) from amazon instances, I need to make sure this backups are running properly and if any backup fails ...
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openQRM can't retrive data from mysql data base
installed openQRM ,PHP and MySQL correctly .first time it work properly after reboot openQRM can't retrive data data from MySQL database .it shows error in MySQL database, then i drop and create new ...
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Using Opennebula as an IaaS: Running benchmark accross all nodes, possibe?
Our current situation:
We have one Opennebula cloud infrastructure consisting of a cluster controller and 6 cluster nodes configured and working. All Nodes run debian instances on top of a kvm ...
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Unclear with understanding of “cloud” services [closed]
I run a RoR/MySQL/Apache stack currently on a slicehost slice. We are coming out of beta within the next few weeks and im concerned with the scalability of the slice, in case we get big. Ive been ...
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Is Azure's Virtual Network similar to SSLVPN?
I've been asked to set up Azure's Virtual Network, and that requires me to install some kind of software on each host within my network.
Does anyone have technical details on how the Azure Virtual ...
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Can one provision more resouces than a single underlying virtualized box houses? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Combine several physical servers into 1 virtual server
I have about 12 commodity (Dual core, 2GB RAM Intel) boxes.
I had this crazy idea that I would be able to install ...
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Industrial strength cloud file storage [closed]
I'm looking for an industrial strength cloud file storage system. It will be used by multiple people in a startup.
Our requirements:
Transparent file system access: files and folders in the file ...
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Can't launch Oneiric x64 instance on Eucalyptus
EDIT: after many hours, I've found out that the problem has nothing to do with Eucalyptus. It looks like the image is buggy. Very, very buggy. More details in the end. I didn't manage to fix it, and I ...
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Professional Dropbox type services for DR/Backup
Should I consider these kind of cloud services for off site DR?
We are a small company currently run backup across our servers and then allow dropbox (paid version) to ensure that we have backup's in ...
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Cloud verses VPS vs Hosted for remote database
We have a dedicated server that hosts several of our sites along with our databases. Its a typical LAMP setup running on Ubuntu/Debian 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. Its security patches and repositories are ...
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What ways to host a service are there except owning a server or renting a cloud service virtual machine? [closed]
Suppose I want to host some web-service - a bunch of code that will accept HTTP requests, do something useful and serve results as web pages.
AFAIK there're two options. I could buy a server and host ...
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Hosted fault-tolerant (replicated) memcache solution in amazon ec2 cloud?
does anyone offer a fault-tolerant (replicated) memcache solution that is hosted in amazon ec2, needs zero maintenance and works with providing just one IP?
I know that amazon offers ElastiCache. But ...
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Active Directory root forest migration
We're looking at doing a cloud migration and considering shifting to a new Active Directory forest in the process.
On-site, our AD root forest matches our top-level domain (myschool.edu). We've been ...
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Decreasing Root Disk Size of an “EBS Boot” AMI on EC2
So I have followed Eric's wonderful article here: http://alestic.com/2009/12/ec2-ebs-boot-resize
This was the code basically that helped me increase the default size of the AMI:
ec2-run-sintances ...
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Memcached server: Is it a good practice to point two server urls to the same server?
I have a system where there are connections to a memcache server from several different files and servers.
I would like to stay with one server but keep the option of increasing the number of ...
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What is this terminology and how is it applied?
What is it called when multiple physical servers share resources amongst each to act on behalf of a single opperating system or application for a common purpose? I think Microsoft calls it ...
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When loading a wordpress site, is more CPU or RAM better?
I'm trying to find a host that can handle traffic spikes for wordpress sites. I can't decide between cloud hosting or a VPS. I know with the cloud I believe the CPU power is elastic and can expand if ...
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Bridging Virtual Networking into Real LAN on a OpenNebula Cluster
I'm running Open Nebula with 1 Cluster Controller and 3 Nodes.
I registered the nodes at the front-end controller and I can start an Ubuntu virtual machine on one of the nodes.
However from my ...
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Share multiple instances of a single app over WAN
I hope this is the right spot. :) I write software here locally for small businesses, and it's caught on rather well! I've been asked to port what I have at the moment to Mac, iPad, etc. At the moment ...
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Backup suite for hybrid NAS/Cloud/RDX Backup of Windows Server 2008r2 and Agent-less VMWare vSphere hosts
I have been trying to find the perfect backup solution for our fairly small network. Although we do not have a ton of servers or huge amount of users, we are located in a disaster-prone area and ...
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private cloud for testing purposes
I'm currently responsible for setting up some infrastructure integration testing in my company. We'll definitely need to use virtual machines. I considered using libvirt for managing VMs in tests ...
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Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting [closed]
I just finished the BETA version of my Web SaaS application, it provides more than 15 service to WP users.
Programming language : PHP 5
DB : MySQL 5
I used Codeigniter framework.
The application ...
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Amazon Cloud Services to make configuration and scaling easier [closed]
I am looking for a way to make the switch to Amazon EC2, but would prefer to go through a service such as scalarium. They are supposed to make load balancing and configuration extremely easy.
My ...
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How do I setup sending emails from Windows Azure through my company server?
In my Windows Azure web role I need to send emails. Looks like one of the options is to use my company SMTP server. I asked our admins - they say I have to join the Azure role into our corporate VPN ...
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New web development business server issue
Having decided to quit my job and start a web development business, after some success with previous business.
I will be starting with 9 clients but are looking to expand to 25 relatively quickly.
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On-site campus infrastructure migration to Amazon EC2. Feasible?
After a recent power outage, we've been re-evaluating how we can most effectively provide, maintain, and support our IT resources.
One idea we've been considering is to move our non-critical ...
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Amazon EC2 instance ssh problems
I`m new to EC2 and I'm having some problems setting up my first instance. I followed this guide:
http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/01/26/starting-amazon-ec2-with-mac-os-x/
with the difference that I ...
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Migration between OpenStack and RackSpace cloud
So I am deploying a OpenStack private cloud in my business. As I understand from research the OpenStack project was created by RackSpace and that their own cloud platform uses OpenStack.
So my ...
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How to use a cloud to host web sites?
To host web sites currently we are using dedicated linux boxes hosted in the UK. But managing them is a nightmare, backups, massive loads, downtime etc...
I was looking into OpenStack which was ...
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Why “xm list” runs very slow sometimes?
It costs more than 5 seconds to list a virtual machine's information.
