Questions tagged [datacenter]
is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems
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How to take full ownership of an IP address?
My business is... troublesome.
What I do is legal in every country on earth, but some people don't like it, and make it so tough on my poor ISPs that I am forced to go looking for new providers more ...
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Cross-Connect Between Data centers
Is it possible to cross connect between different data centers?
I'm looking to connect to a financial exchange and need extremely low latency. The cost for a data center 100 metres down the road is ...
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Buying a Server vs Hosting on a Datacenter
I'm planning to host a website. It would be a photo-sharing website.
I'm trying to find out a server that I should buy to put the website online.
The website is in Apache PHP.
I'm assuming the number ...
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Best switch and firewall to use in a Data Centre Rack? [closed]
Can anyone offer any suggestions on the best switch and firewall to use with Dell PowerEdge servers that are co-located in a Data Centre Half Rack? I'm looking at potentially a Cisco ASA5510 Firewall ...
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Normal ping between VPSs of one hoster
I use two VPS's from one hoster: one under Windows and other under Linux. I have sent ping from Windows instance to Linux and got 69ms time. I was shocked. I expected values like 1ms (as I previously ...
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Running MySql replication between datacenters
I run my website from EC2. Due to AWS outages, I am contemplating replicating my setup on Rackspace and switch over from DNS in case of an outage.
I am looking to learn ways to replicate my MySql ...
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What happens if services like DynDNS to control failovers fails? It's probably?
In the next diagram I'm trying to have a backup web page in another datacenter and a service like DynDNS that controls failovers in SERVER A to switch to SERVER B. But, what happens if DynDNS fails?
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Starting a datacenter [closed]
I know maybe here isn't a good place to ask, but I'm about to start a little datacenter (hosting domains) and also hosting dedicated servers. [I don't know anything about server details] (and also i ...
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Server/Power supply AMP usage
I've been looking into getting some servers with co-location, I've worked with co-lo'd servers before but this is the first time I've actually a rack up.
All co-lo' providers specify a limit on the ...
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Power reading 2 amps with 13 servers?
We have a rack in a data center and we became suspicious of running out of power.
But our power bar says 2 amps! It has a live indicator, so it's not just one reading. Do you think there's something ...
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Website & database hosted across multiple data centers
We recently had a major data center outage from our hosting provider. They lost a fibre connection, causing a 9 hours outage, where most of our customers could not connect.
This has caused us to ...
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Preparation questions for entry-level Data Center technician position?
I have been in the IT field for the past 7+ years, however in recent years I have only been doing website development. I have a lot of general knowledge but everything is self taught. I currently have ...
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How do you relocate a server farm?
This is just a hypothetical question to satisfy my own curiosity.
Our company is based out of Site A, this is getting a bit full and we are having to setup pilot offices for teams, branching the ...
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Security restricting movement of servers
We've got 20 servers that we need to remove from a datacentre that we haven't physically visited in about 5 years (I've never been there, it was from before my time). We've had to go through complete ...
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Is it possible to use mixed 110V / 208V power on a single server with dual power supplies?
Is it possible to run a dual power supply server with one PS plugged into 110V, and the other power supply plugged into 208V? We've asked the vendors and they say they've never tested it or some other ...
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What kind of server jack is this? [duplicate]
In this video: http://vodpod.com/watch/2515104-rack-and-install-the-cisco-ucs-5108-server-chassis 3:18 into the video. I'm curious about Server Jacks and possibly ballpark costs for them.
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Hosting web server via FTTH (Fibre To The Home) or datacenter
I'm a .Net programmer that currently using web hosting provider to host my web applications.
In my place, currently there is offer of 20 Mbps FTTH (Fibre To The Home) internet line by an ISP. This ...
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Generic datacenter questions [closed]
Hope this is the right place to ask a datacenter-related question. I don't have any experience with datacenter administration, and I am aware that the answers to the questions below might change based ...
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ISP Point of Presence versus ISP data center and what effect it has on CDN server deployment
I would like to clarify my understanding of the difference between an ISP Point of Presence and an ISP data center. Perhaps more importantly, I'm trying to understand at what kind of granularity each ...
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Best practices for power cabling racks in DC
With network cables it is easy. I use velcro-ties, coloured cables, 0U vertical cable organizers from APC on side of the rack -- easy and neat.
However with power cables it was always giving me ...
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Servers with same workload in the same rack: good, bad or unimportant?
Our current server layout (not designed by me) has identical machines located on the same rack. We'll have all the database servers on rack A, all the fileservers on rack B, etc.
This seems dangerous ...
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Need a report on data center costs [closed]
I'm looking for some information on the costs of running a data center, preferably a company report not just on inital costs but also monthly and/or annual operational costs. Is there any such report ...
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Hosting Hyper-V VMs to customers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing question?
So simple enough question really, I hope. I'm a little confused by Microsoft's licencing, go figure eh.
I'm maybe looking ...
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Why datacenter water cooling is not widespread?
From what I read and hear about datacenters, there are not too many server rooms which use water cooling, and none of the largerst datacenters use water cooling (correct me if I'm wrong). Also, it's ...
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Any way to speed up my website in other countries?
My website(social network) was built with django, cassandra && memcache, rabbitmq, mysql
it used rabbitmq to serve POST requests (often it user submitted contents), to balance the load of ...
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how many blade enclosures can you fit in a rack?
Considering the power and cooling requirements of HP's or IBM's newest blade (10U) chassis fully stacked, how many of them can you fit in a standard size rack (42 U) ?
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How to set up FCoE target under Ubuntu?
We have:
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS installed
MegaRAID controller with 2 virtual RAID10 drives.
2x 10GbE dual port adapters (Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S aka Intel 82599)
We need to make those Megaraid drives ...
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SQL Server 2008 Underperforming - extreme slowness after migrating to new server
Last weekend we moved our production database to a new server. It's a Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. On it is a brand new installation of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition 64-bit. On Sunday, ...
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Determining amount and cost of cooling needed
I have a system that is using 2.02kWh per day, and I'm trying to figure out its heat output, cooling needs, and cooling cost. I've worked it all out to the point of determining the amount of cooling ...
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What is meant when IT Infrastructure people refer to the "Stack"
Can someone please define what exactly is the "Stack". I know its an industry term but its very vague. I am referring to Infrastructure terminology not "Stack" in terms of memory allocation.
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Receiving Cable/Satellite Television in Colo?
I am running analysis over many live TV channels (both broadcast and cable networks). Currently I have an office setup with couple of DISH receivers hooked up to HDMI capture cards in a machine that'...
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new to server hosting, what do i need to know? should I? [closed]
I am planning (mostly hoping) to create and manage my own server for some python web apps, Apache/PHP/MySQL as well as a minecraft server. I have never hosted anything more complicated than a ...
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Rack layout for future growth
We're getting ready to move to a new colo facility and I'm designing
the rack layout. While we have a full rack, we only have 12U worth of
hardware right now:
1x 1U switch
7x 1U servers
1x 2U server
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Why are datacenters built over a wide area instead of using taller buildings?
I've seen a lot of datacenters pictures and it seems that the owners prefer to build them over a wide area instead of building them using taller buildings. Why?
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Splunk is fantastically expensive: What are the alternatives? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Alternatives to Splunk?
This has been discussed, but it has been several months, so it may be time to revisit it:
Earlier discussion RE Splunk alternatives
For the record, ...
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What is the average monthly production cost for big data centers like the ones for facebook, google or apple? [closed]
As per the question title, how much do large private data centres cost to run?
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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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Data center router/firewall recommendations
I'm looking for help deciding on a new router for our data center equipment. Currently, we've got about 10 machines, each with their own firewall. I'd like to get them all behind a single router and ...
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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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Hosted datacenter vs Cloud datacenter
What exactly is the factor that differentiate/classify/categorize/determine between a Hosted datacenter and Cloud datacenter?
At an abstract level, if datacenter is a physical place where it is used ...
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getting started automating virtualization with powershell on windows [closed]
What are some good books or resources for learning automate virtual PCs on Windows DataCenter? I want to be able to build VPCs with both automated installs and from images, preferably via powershell. ...
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Avoiding DNS timeouts when a DNSserver fails
We have a small datacenter with about a hundred hosts pointing to 3 internal DNS servers (bind 9). Our problem comes when one of the internal DNS servers becomes unavailable.
At that point all the ...
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Game Server Colocation [closed]
I am new to colocation. I am looking for a good place to host my server that would have around 5-10 Source Servers (Team Fortress 2). I am looking at maybe around 90 players at a time for now, players ...
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Datacenter IP Addressing and DNS Management
We are setting up a small Datacenter, about 300 amps power and max 50 racks,
I have studied networking mostly Microsoft and Windows based systems , but I do not understand the IP addressing, DNS ...
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Moving to Data Center
Please, give me any advice.
Our company has decided to move servers to a data center since we are having a major network traffic jam. The data center provides 100MB bandwidth and full 42 unit cabinet ...
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Use Cat5 or Cat6, UTP or STP in Data Center?
I'm about to buy cables for our first data center install. It's all Gigabit Ethernet. Should we use Cat5 or Cat6, UTP or STP?
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datacenter network change control best practices
I have been tasked with compiling a list of possible network equipment changes at a data center. The task includes tagging which changes need change control and which don't. Does anyone know of a "...
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How to correctly run cables on servers in a data center?
I've read about a few key points, e.g. run all ethernet cables on the right side, all power on the left side, but if possible I'd like to know what you guys do from experience? For example, how do you ...
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How does getting a a data center host work?
Dedicated servers are relatively easy: Find one of a tons of data center hosts out there, sign up, get your credentials, and your done. But the next level up, data center, doesn't seem to be so easy. ...
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Key Things to look for in a Data Center
I'm trying to build a simple checklist to determine the quality of a datacenter... where and what should I look for and how can I determine if what the owners say (e.g. "our UPS keep the data center ...