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Are SSD drives as reliable as mechanical drives (2013)?
SSD drives have been around for several years now. But the issue of reliability still comes up.
I guess this is a follow up from this question posted 4 years ago, and last updated in 2011. It's now ...
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TCP vs UDP Error-Checking
I've bounced upon two articles that describe in-depth on how TCP and UDP connections work. However there is some kind of inconsistency. Where one article tells me that UDP does no Error-Checking at ...
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What filesystem to use for Industrial CF card to boot from and be as reliable as possible? [closed]
I boot my linux system via industrial CF and am currently using ext4 without journal, mounted with sync option (exactly: noauto,noatime,nodev,barrier=1,data=ordered,sync). I only ever mount the fs ...
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Achieving Five Nines
I am building a web application where uptime is key. I understand that 100% uptime is not realistic but I would like to achieve five nines. I'm unsure as to the most prudent way to accomplish this.
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Windows Server 2012: Possible to have High Availability and reliability without needing a SAN, but connecting servers together?
I have some questions below -- tried to word them the best I could. If you downvote my post, please make a comment explaining why you downvoted so that I can try to do better when I post in the ...
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Why does VPN IPSec client use UDP?
The VPN I use on my home Windows computer to connect to my company's servers is a Cisco client. The client is configured to use "IPSec over UDP (NAT/PAT)".
Why would you use UDP, an "unreliable" ...
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Does it make sense to install online spare memory?
I'm using HP DL360p Generation 8. I need a pretty reliable server, so I'm using RAID 1 with a spare drive, and I also added an extra power supply. But should I install online spare memory? Or ...
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Network adapters reliability
Can you help me with understanding of reliability of network adapters.
Most of the time servers do have at least 2 NIC's bonded to provide sort of a HA for it.
So in case of one NIC fails, the second ...
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Making a hot spare with automatic failover
I currently have a VPS hosted in Charleston, NC. My current provider is offering a deal to purchase an identical (resource wise) VPS in another data center. Although I rarely experience downtime, I ...
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The importance of ECC memory
Are ECC memory modules important to have on a non-critical server?
I was thinking about getting myself a toy dedicated server for lots of random, non-critical stuff. Sporadic reboots are no big ...
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Obtain event servity from Win32_ReliabilityRecords
Microsoft introduced the "Reliability Monitor" in Windows Vista.
I use WMI to access this information, and more precisely I query the Win32_ReliabilityRecords class. This yields the list of events ...
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How to protect power strips from accidental shut-offs/“cleaning lady” attack?
Are there any power strips or products designed to defend against a "cleaning lady" attack (cleaning crew is vacuuming the floor and bumps the power strip switch, turning off all the connected ...
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How to troubleshoot many failed pageloads?
I've had a few cases in which the homepage of one of my sites wouldn't load in the browser. The site is running on django/fastcgi/nginx.
It was difficult to reproduce so, in an attempt to understand ...
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Ubuntu server burn in test
We've assembled a simple storage server with COTS SATA disks that we're planning to tie together with software raid (Ubuntu Server, mdadm). What burn-in tests can one run to test the system, in ...
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DNS Failover with multiple Nginx load balancers
Our application is hosted on EC2, however because the nature of the app, it requires extremely high availability. We have an image of the app running on Linode as a failover.
However, doing a DNS ...
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Automatically-reconnecting TCP tunnel
I have an unreliable network connection between two machines: sometimes active TCP connections get dropped for reasons beyond my control. I want to establish a reliable TCP connection between the two ...
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How do you setup a SQL 2005 cluster in amazon EC2?
I am trying to setup a highly-available DB architecture in an EC2 servers. We are forced to use SQL 2005 for now.
What kind of solutions would work in this context? Has anyone done it?
I can't ...
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SSD system disk durability?
This is a follow up to Server System drive on a USB stick? Good? Bad?.
I set my mind on this 2GB motherboard mountable PATA SSD.
(I already ordered it because I had a voucher, this question is to ...
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Is there a reliability difference between 2.5“ and 3.5” HDDs?
I know there are a couple of key characteristics that determine the reliability of HDDs, but is there a difference between 2.5" and 3.5" drives?
In the past I've always assumed that 3.5" drives ...
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how to make ext4 more reliable? [closed]
As ext4 introduced more reliability than ext3 with block journals, is there any chance to suppose it 100% reliable? What if enabling block journaling on it, which is disabled by default?
I have an ...
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What is the best strategy to monitor health of hard disks?
What strategies do you use to monitor the health of your server hard disks? Do you schedule an automatic chkdsk with reporting? How are you alerted of failures?
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Can USB powered device affect longevity of the port?
Looking to purchase a new DVD Writer for the first time, I notice there are USB powered devices available which do not require an external adapter/power-supply. This may be sufficient for stuff that ...
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Set up a temporary reliable database server on a budget of $0.00
I am helping run a Model United Nations conference for high school students. The conference is completely organized and staffed by university students. I am writing an application that will keep track ...
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redundant http load balancer
Got a simple scenario with two web servers for redundancy and to scale.
But how do I make a two web-server setup fully redundant? I can think of two solutions;
two web servers, one load balancer ...
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How common are power supply failures in comparison to hard disk failures?
My webhost offers two different types of high availability options for dedicated servers:
Redundant hard disks (RAID1)
Redundant hard disks (RAID1) plus redundant power supply
How common is a ...
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Tape vs SSDs backups regarding long-term storage reliability
My question is very specifically about solid state drives, not regular hard drives. I would like to put in place a grandfather-father-son backup scheme, with the SSDs being used for the grandfather ...
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Failsafe Ethernet Switches on UAV
As a side project we are working on a new internal network for a small UAV and will base it on 100mbit Ethernet instead of serial coms that's usually used for these types of aircraft. We have gone ...
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Autodialing software?
I need to have a computer automatically call my office and maintain the telephone connection for at least 2 minutes. The reason for this, is I've contracted with a squirrelly VOIP provider that I ...
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It is XFS reliable? In case of a power gone off is xfs riskier that ext3 in data corruption/safey?
I have been having some electrical issues,mostly power going out suddenly for a few months,and although ups solve the thing mostly.
But still i am worried about filesystem corruption,and data lost.
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How to protect the server rack from water streaming from above?
Recently we had a rather funny incident: suddenly about a liter of water ran from above the drop ceiling right in the middle of the office. Turned out it was some pipe in the air conditioning that ...
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Cost effective, long term archival of video and image data? ~50 TB
My lab is in the process of setting up a small server that holds data (mostly video and image data, plus a few documents) for the project our group is working on at a moment in time.
Historically, ...
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Are web servers/services more prone to fail outside of working hours?
I've just had a server outage at 4.59AM on Sunday morning, and looking through our uptime records going back to 2006 all except for 4 outages out of 20 occured between 11PM and 6AM. (Only looking at ...
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Verifying hosted VOIP PBX uptime
For the second time, I'm outsourcing my VOIP hosting to a provider, whom I have to trust their sales pitch of 45 minutes down per 365 days. Is there an automated way I can test their server(s) ...
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Consistent Reliable Messaging
Hay All..
Im working a new project,
Im currently deciding between
flume & scribe for messaging systems... ( most probably sent to logs or hadoop )
I cannot lose a message ever..
What are ...
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How to make PHP more scalable on Unix Apache
I'm looking for free/low cost ways to make PHP running on our Unix Solaris servers (under Apache) more scalable and reliable. Do you recommend the free version of the Zend Server? Are there other ...
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To what degree can I trust a given storage device?
Apologies for the horribly vague question...
What are the error rates for reading and writing to storage devices, and do our file systems and OS's account for this?
I've had bad sectors on my ...
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A strategy for network monitoring to improve network health?
The goal
is to find out which parts of network should be upgraded / reorganized to improve network health (reliability and performance).
What are the methods to monitor network traffic, detect ...
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Block SMTP session with sender domain which doesn't itself accept SMTP connection
I'm administrating a mail service for a small business. Their mail host's internet connection is an ADSL service with a permanent IP address.
Unfortunately, many misconfigured mail systems will ...
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How stable is zfs-fuse 0.6.9 on Linux?
I'm thinking of using ZFS for my home-made NAS array. I would have 4 HDDs in raidz on a Ubuntu Server 10.04 machine.
I'd like to use the snapshot capability and dedup when storing data. I'm not so ...
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Can an SSD notify the hosting OS that its wear level is getting high?
I read a lot about SSDs and I am interested in them for server use. My biggest concern is their reliability. A lot of writes shortens their life span. I can mitigate this problem if I can run some ...
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Solid State Hard Drive
It's said that Solid State Drive is much better than SATA one as there is no spinning head or os. So, there won't be hard disk crash problem?
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How to configure Apache to automatically restart itself every N requests?
We host svn on Apache 2.2 and it's memory usage slowly grows until it just halts. I've heard that there's a magic settings that makes Apache restart itself automatically after processing every N ...
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When running a shell script, how can you protect it from overwriting or truncating files?
If while an application is running one of the shared libraries it uses is written to or truncated, then the application will crash. Moving the file or removing it wholesale with 'rm' will not cause a ...
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Fast and reliable desktop-grade drive
I'm looking for desktop-grade drives to build a distributed storage cluster (chunks are replicated on software level). I don't mind their mission critical ability, which clearly impossible with their ...
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Looking for a reliable web provider that supports ASP.NET? Shared LAMP account a plus
My title is probably not very clear but here's the deal.
I'm a software engineer with experience in many languages but my current focus is Windows/Web applications using C# and .NET.
I'm currently ...
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Questions about single point of failure for small operations
1) If you can't afford or don't need a cluster or spare server waiting to come online in the event of a failure, it seems like you might split the services provided by one beefy server onto two less ...
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network layer reliability
I have a question about the reliability of network layers, I think in the network layers there is a redundancy, my question is why both link-level and end-end reliability need?
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Rackmount Server Reliability by Brand Name and Form Factor
Our company runs e-commerce web sites (thousands) on two clusters in two separate data centers.
Basically, all we require to operate is rack mountable server nodes. Each node needs:
1.) 4 or 8 ...
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Is router DHCP server reliable for remote system?
I'm setting up a small unattended network containing one server and several node machines that communicate with that server. Is setting up a reserved entry on the network router's DHCP server for each ...
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Configuring DNS to serve pages from multiple servers for a single domain
I have some really high-availability web page content that needs to be online 24x7. So instead of relying on a single server I was wondering if I could handle one domain name with multiple servers?
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