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Installing Linux server on USB stick

I am looking to rent 6 of these servers: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s As you can see, the hard drives aren't server grade and they break a lot. I was wondering if it's ...
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How should an IT department choose a Linux distribution: Technical reasons

There is a lot of community feeling about what Linux distributions are appropriate for production server environments and what aren't. Some of this is based on the availability of commercial support. ...
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Multiple MongoDB instances on same server

We set up a MongoDB development server on CentOS 6.3 and were able to separate different projects by using separate config files and rc scripts. Now we're looking at setting up a MongoDB production ...
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Linux web-application production checklist [closed]

Assuming I set up a clean linux system (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, other) and that everything (database, caching, web server, application server) is situated on one machine, what should I check before ...
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What Linux Distro would your recommend for my Production Web Server? [closed]

I have been using CentOS for my Web Server for a while now, but it just doesnt feel right any more, I see CentOS as more of an Enterprise Server Distro rather than for HTTPd and FTPd work. Would your ...
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Best way to deploy/update web production code

What is the best method to deploy or update code from a development environment to a live production one? I am used to using the good old filezila to first; delete then upload the new code to the ...
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What production grade linux has MySQL 5.5? [closed]

I want production grade linux with LTS, long term support, that has MySQL 5.5. I.e. no third party repositories, no downloading binaries from mysql.org. Are there any available now or soon? The first ...
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What is the best way to install apache, PHP, MySQL, FTP (virtual hosting), and phpMyAdmin on a production CentOS server?

I am working on a small, self-hosted project and I need to have LAMP, FTP, and phpMyAdmin installed. It needs to be set up so it is safe to have running live on the web. Is it best to yum install ** ...
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How do you make it obvious you are on a production system?

A few of us at my company have root access on production servers. We are looking for a good way to make it exceedingly clear when we have ssh'd in. A few ideas we have had are: Bright red prompt ...
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How to prevent a global svn update?

I'm taking steps to prevent someone (i.e. me) accidentally wiping the production server out. I'm currently looking at SVN. I'm concerned that someone could accidentally issue the svn update command ...
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Deploying Memcached as 32bit or 64bit?

I'm curious about how people deploy memcached on 64 bit machines. Do you compile a 64bit (standard) memcached binary and run that, or do people compile it in 32bit mode and run N instances (where N = ...
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Free way to virtualize Linux on top of Windows Server 2003 Std (non-R2) with production stability?

On a zero-dollar budget, is there any way that's known to be stable to install Linux as a guest in a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2 virtualization host? I know there are lots of products ...
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Best practices for working with Development, Staging, Production server and SVN

Our development team has a live server hosted in a data centre, as well as a dev and staging server onsite All machines are running Debian 5, PHP, MySQL We have Subversion running on the development ...
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Setting up production server, what user should applications run as?

I'm trying to setup a production server, should I create a separate user to run certain application under similar to what apache does? Is it unsafe for them to run as root? OS: Ubuntu 9.10 The ...
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Jetty + SSL + Linux=timeouts, disconnects. Is it production ready?

We are experiencing various reliability problems with a setup that includes Jetty on CentOS 5 running predominantly SSL. There are unexplained disconnects and time-outs and occational looping, ...
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automated linux deployment and config management at small scale - is it worth it?

i'm about to deploy ~25 servers running debian. machines will have different roles - web servers, java appservs, proxies, mysql boxes. environment will probably not grow much in the future - maybe 2-5 ...
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What backup solution you use for linux servers

What backup solutions you use for linux server in production environment? Do you prefer open source or commercial products? What you consider to be essential features in backup software? Which ...