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Does Cisco Router or Security Appliance support bandwidth control? [closed]
We have some important websites hosted in our data center.
Sometimes, certain IP address consumed a lot of bandwidth (5G per day) on our website. However, we don't want to block them straightway, but ...
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What server setup for a small web development company? [closed]
I co-own a company with a friend of mine and we have decided to buy a new server to support our business (our current server is an Asus EEE Box, working great but too limited :) ).
I should mention ...
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What options do I have to replace a gateway server?
I have a Linux server acting as a gateway and VPN endpoint. It's made from an old workstation and needs to be replaced. It's connected to another router in which we configure the VPNs. The server ...
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VPN recommendations [closed]
Apologies if this isn't the correct place to ask this, this is the most suitable stack I could find;
I'm after some advice on VPNs; I want a solution that terminates VPNs that is easily scalable but ...
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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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Recommendation for locale on server: ISO (latin) or UTF-8
What is the recommended locale setting on a server that is used as an web and database server.
Are there any drawbacks not using UTF-8 as default?
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UK SIP/IAX2 provider?
We're currently with voiptalk, and have had a lot of issues in the last week with our phones being unavailable (mostly for inbound calls). We're using PBX In a Flash as our VOIP server. Requirements ...
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Debain FTP server software, which one supports my setup?
Im looking for some FTP server software for Debain 6.0 Squeeze that can support the following:
Username/password from MySQL.
Separates each user login into its own directory.
In the users directory, ...
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Looking for A Lightweight Web Proxy [closed]
I'm looking for a lightweight web proxy, it must:
Be free (as in beer)
Run on linux or bsd
Support user logins
Support clustering
What have you used or heard good things about?
Sorry I can't be ...
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Looking for good advices concerning the use of NFS under Windows 2008
I'm looking for advice regarding the use of NFS under windows 2008.
Ease of use
Performance
Recommendations
etc...
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Help starting to design a VAR's backup strategy for many independent customers?
Is there any particular backup / imaging software which seems to be a good fit for our situation, or is there some other direction I should be looking in to meet our requirements? I realize this is a ...
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What router hardware or software should be used when multiple public IPs are routed into the same LAN?
I am looking for recommendations to replace a set of consumer grade (Linksys, Netgear, Belkin) routers with something that can handle more traffic while routing more than one static public IP into the ...
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Data Recovery Jobs
Not sure if SF is exactly the place, but I was hoping this group would have solid experience. I am your run-of-the-mill desktop technician, and it hit me today I know very little about disk/data ...
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MozyPro Reseller Alternative for Backing up SQL Servers (and files) [closed]
We have a MozyPro reseller account and have been testing the service with around 10 customers. Our biggest requirement is to backup a SQL Server (2000/2005/2008/2008r2), personal/express, standard or ...
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Looking for a way to audit/monitor removable media on a Mac
We have a client who's requiring that we implement dataloss prevention on workstations that are accessing their project's data. If Alice attaches removable media (USB, FireWire, CD, DVD) to her ...
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What is the best way to address users storing and streaming music within your company?
We have a number of users who have MP3s in their home directories which are stored on our centralized file server. This has a negative affect on how long our backups take, how much drives space we ...
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Looking for a way to “mark” emails from an exchange server
I'm trying to find a way to mark emails on an exchange server (2007), the same way (or similar) that you can mark with colors on your local emails.
I explain: we're 4 people in the world accessing ...
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Web Server Hardware - What Do I Need?
I need a web server for static web content, a corporate blog and the company e-commerce system. I have some ideas, but thought of seeking additional feedback from the world's best server pros!
NOTE ...
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Recommend website and weblog to read? [closed]
I am looking to add rss of the some great websites and specially blogs about Windows Server networking tips, Cisco switching.
Specially give me blogs of some networking geeks that give us everyday ...
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Which is the best RAID between RAID 10 and 0+1?
Could anyone tell me which RAID would be the best between 10 and 01, and why?
Thanks for your help.
EDIT: I didt't want to know what's the best RAID ever... Otherwise I'd ask: "Why is NetApp RAID-DP ...
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I'm looking for a good database regrouping all NetApp products and solution
First Question: I would like to inform myself about NetApp, and I'm looking for a good, complete database where all products and solultions are regrouped, with their features and technical ...
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VMware ESXi and ZFS hardware & configuration recommendations [closed]
I want to finally spend a little money upgrading my company's virtualization infrastructure, but I've been looking at hardware for a couple of weeks now and I'm not quite sure what's appropriate for ...
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Recommendations For Learning SendMail ASAP? [closed]
I'd like to master SendMail operations as quickly (and cost-effectively) as possible. Are there any books or online course that could help here?
Thanks,
M
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Recommendations for a file server used by ~20 people
We have a machine running consumer hardware at the moment as our fileserver, and of course its RAIDs keep dying. So we've been given permission to get a replacement that's less likely to die.
The ...
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Recommendation for a Data Center in Prague [closed]
I am looking for recommendations for a DC in Prague, for hosting a virtualization solution (several hosts, a small SAN, switches, routers) about half a rack with ~20mbps traffic to start with.
Does ...
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what is the recommended web server for images?
I have a new server for only images. what is the recommended web server to serve only static content (I have only images) ?
My hardware is:
CPU: intel xeon X3460
RAM: 16G
OS is CentOS5
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Web server hardware firewall recommendations
I'm looking for a specific hardware firewall model solutions that best accommodate the following concerns [Cisco models are best, because our colo can get good deals on them reconditioned]:
There ...
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Which VPN that works without an “installed” client
I have some systems (Mostly CentOS 5 and some XP all running under ESXi) running behind my firewall. When I'm at friends, family or on vacation I sometimes want to connect to those systems over either ...
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Recommendations: Good Network MFP Printer/Scanner [closed]
We have a small office that is expanding. At the moment we have 1x HP J6424 MFP, shared using it's built in network port.
It is now becoming a headache, we have daily problems with people not being ...
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What antivirus software is recommended for Windows Server and Small Business Server? [closed]
I wounder what antivirus software is recommended for a Windows Server 2008 or a Small Business Server 2008.
I would like to have one that:
Is easy to maintain.
Has good performance
I don't need ...
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Experiences with Google TiSP? [closed]
i got an email from google a couple of hours ago (around 12AM EST today) that Google's TiSP service is now available in my area.
this seems like a great deal compared to my cUrrent 16Mbps cable ...
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Green System Administrator looking for helpful tips
I have just been promoted to Systems Administrator for our product. We are designing a application that communicates with the cloud(Amazon EC2). I will be in charge of maintaining all Instances and ...
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Sas/Sata raid controller with dedicated management interface?
I am looking for an internal raid controller that has a dedicated Ethernet port for management. I would really like to have operating system independent management of the raid without having to drop ...
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recommendation on good LDAP training, preferably with concentrating on OpenLDAP [closed]
I need to bring in someone to train my team with the usage of LDAP.
Any objective recommendations on a company/freelance that gives such a service?
in the USA/dc
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Recommended networking and security books?
Could you please recommend me a book that would cover computer networking, protocols, information security?
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Recommend DNS provider for high traffic site
Recommend DNS provider for Medium to High traffic site
Hi,
We will soon roll out a website that is expected to scale for medium to high traffic. We originally bought registered our DNS names with ...
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Getting a feel for postfix
I've been running Postfix servers for four years, and one whose reliability is important to me for a year and a half. While it's working well enough, with zero unplanned downtime in that time, I find ...
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Rackmountable box that has 5v PCI + PCI-X and supports Windows XP?
We have two 3rd party cards that we would like to install into a Rackmountable box. One card is a full-height & full-length 5volt PCI card, so we cannot put this into a PCI-X slot. The other ...
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Recommendation: Company website forced to https?
My company wants their "informational" website to be rewritten from HTTP to HTTPS. Technically this is not a big deal for me. But i have doubts if this is state-of-the-art since the only reason they ...
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PolyCenter Netview & Console Manager
I'm looking to replace Polycenter Newview and Polycenter Console Manager with supported products.
I'm starting with this list.
Do you have any recommendations, either from that list or elsewhere?
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Sturdy/reliable tablet PCs?
I'm looking for Tablet PCs (or a vendor) that are known to be sturdy/reliable. Problem is, that cost is a factor right now for my employer. We're looking to get 10 of them for our road warriors, and ...
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Best Long-term Large Filesystem
I store all my Music CDs, Music, DVD Rips, etc on hard drives for quick access and long term storage. What file system should I use?
I use a bunch of drives glued together in an LVM so being able to ...
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Internal vs External Hard Drives
I'm looking at buying some more space. I currently have 6 hard drives ranging from 80GB - 500GB glued together in an LVM. I just use them for long term storage (ISOs of CDs I don't want to bother ...
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how to use our existing mac pros as distributed storage?
I work in a lab that has to support some fairly processor-intensive user applications but basically has no need for local disk storage because we don't guarantee any kind of data persistence. However, ...
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HyperV Server Recommendations
Looking to implement HyperV on 2008 R2... We currently use an HP DL380, but we are looking to expand a bit and were thinking maybe a blade solution was the answer... Or an HP DL370 G6... Or the Intel ...
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Recommendation for Ethernet switches that allow arbitrary network topologies [closed]
We have the following requirements for three Ethernet switches that will be connected together:
Allow the switches to connect together to form dynamic, arbitrary topologies, i.e., support for the ...
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Server Hardware Recomendation [closed]
I'm ready to buy a few servers and I'm wondering what the best setup would be.
My site serves about 1M php pages day. And the database has about 4M rows that are constantly growing. (60% read, 40% ...
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Recommendation for Reseller Web Hosting - With Linux/Apache & IIS Options
I work for an IT consulting company, and many of our clients have been asking about switching their website hosting to us so that they only have to deal with one outfit.
We have done some small scale ...
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Rack Server Specs / Reccomendations for RDS Users
I'm writing up a cost analysis report on migrating in-house users from standalone workstations to thin-clients connected to a rack mounted server running Windows Server 2008 with RDS (formally TS). I ...
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PoE powered WiFi access point? [closed]
A few years ago, we made use of Apple Airport Extreme base stations mounted on the wall to provide a WiFi bridge to our LAN. This particular model makes use of 802.11af (Power-over-Ethernet, or PoE ...
