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MySQL tables/databases into different disks [migrated]
I am aware that there is a possibility to have a single database server with many tables/databases, and you can separate some of those tables/databases into separate disks.
Lets say you have 5 ...
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Amazon AWS tutorial - Cannot redirect to service provided destination - try using AWS keys for authentication or check destination URL
I'm following the Amazon AWS tutorial and I have reached Step 6: Launch Amazon EC2 Instances Using Auto Scaling
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/
But when I run the ...
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Large VPN network (~600 servers) with OpenVPN
I'm doing a preliminary study for a contract to build a VPN network between ~600 remote servers running Linux CentOS 6 (+ their 600 private LANs). The network is supposed to be star-based, so that ...
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File storage for replicated front-end web servers?
We are a company running a website with ~800k unique visitors each month with a constant growth rate of 35-40%. We have just gone from having one server to a dedicated mysql database and an ...
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Scale out or scale up - Rackspace cloud servers
I have a small webserver running a couple of Django python apps, MySQL, and a wordpress multisite instance. It all runs on Apache with mpm worker, fastcgi and mod_wsgi + memcached
The server is ...
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Scaling advice LAMP + Load balancers
My current setup:
1 Http Load Balancer
3 Apache Frontend Server
1 Mysql Load Balancer (Balancing reads across all three, writes go to master only)
3 Mysql Database Server (1 master, 2 slave)
All ...
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ow to allow elastic load balancer through port 80 in security groups
How to allow elastic load balancer through port 80 in security groups. I want to temporarily block port 80 for the outside world, but want the load balancer to pass through the firewall (via security ...
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Small vs Medium EC2 instances for horizontal scaling with Elastic Load Balancer
I am having some debating around scaling Amazon EC2 instances. I have developed my app using ASP.NET, so I have to choose to go with a Windows EC2 instance. MySQL and images are served from other ...
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Scaling Amazon EC2 instanced when traffic to my app rises
I need your help about scalability on Amazon EC2 instanced. I have developed a web application using asp.net. I have decided that for start, I want to deploy it on a Medium High-CPU Windows Server ...
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Load balanced Drupal servers: a good way to share data among the servers?
I'm trying to get an overview of how i would go about creating a load balanced web server setup. Setting up the actual load balancer and adding two or more web servers seems fair enough. However, I ...
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Sharding MongoDB internationally with data stored based on location
We're looking to set up data centers globally and switch to a NoSQL database like MongoDB to support having our data distributed over these data centers (and as a pleasant side effect, introduce more ...
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Memcached scaling strategy
Currently I am running a production environment with 4 dedicated memcached servers, each of them having 48Gb of RAM (42 dedicated to memcache). Right now they are doing fine, but traffic and content ...
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How many servers or what specs do I need to handle 100000 users? [closed]
I was just wondering how many servers or what specs should have my server (or servers) if I want to handle 100000 users considering that each user will login every three days. (10 times a month)
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Scaling by moving Database to Amazon RDS
We have a situation with an Application which is hosted on a dedicated server where we are anticipating a potential surge in traffic. The major bottleneck on the app is MySQL which is heavy on read ...
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Recommendations for Elastic Search hardware [closed]
Are there any good guides for hardware level to support ElasticSearch? Are recommendations for Lucene or Solr a good place to start? We're looking at rolling out a deployment starting with
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AWS scaling within cluster, via scripts or some other way
It seems that a lot of people are using AWS nowadays, and I'm really hoping someone can give me a pointer on how, and if, I could design a scalable system within EC2.
I tried searching, but all I can ...
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The best way to share a file uploads directory across horizontally scaling web servers
I'm currently trying to spec up a horizontally scalable cluster for a drupal based web app, that looks something like the colorful diagram below:
The load balancer implements sticky sessions, so a ...
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Scale a highly transactional SQL server
I’m looking to upgrade one of my site servers. The site currently executes around 20m sql queries a day and this is growing quite fast. Right now IO throughput is a real issue, so my idea is to move ...
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Best resources to learn about Best Practice Scaling of IT Architecture
Looking for resources to learn the best practices and basics of scaling a backend infrastructure for an application or a web app. I am interested in Amazon Web Services and really enjoy architecting ...
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Microsoft Exchange - does it have serious scaling limitations? [closed]
My corporate email has a quota of 500Mb, which I am constantly hitting.
I recently requested to have this increased but it was refused citing the following two reasons:
We have 400 users. If we ...
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Gridstore and Servers
I am looking in to buying a 5 node gridstore system. http://gridstore.com/products.html
This basic works it seems by using the processing power of all the machines on the network [ same subnet ] with ...
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Best cloud server for a Q and A site? [closed]
I'm about to launch a Q and A site in México, and I want your insight to choose the right server, im a designer so I don't have much server knowledge. I asked my development team, but i want more ...
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How many users can Apache Handle?
I have a static site and an 8GB RAM Server. The site would have just some javascript and static content. I need to handle about 20,000 concurrent visitors. Will my 8GB Server able to handle this ? ...
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MySQL Hardware Specs
Currently we have a database that is 35gb in size and is running on a Virtual Machine with 2GB of RAM. The database is expected to increase at a rate of 3 to 4Gb per day continuously.
What are the ...
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How to properly loadbalance separate fastcgi servers
We are running bigger deployment with multiple servers running Django applications under apache2 and mod_wsgi.
We are considering switch to apache2 + fastcgi and moving fcgi processes to separate ...
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How can I have 2 database servers for my website?
I have a site that has heavy traffic and my database server (mysql) is getting heavy traffic at peek hours. Instead of upgrading to a better server, I am thinking of having 2 database servers working ...
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What server hardware are people using for replicated mongodb servers?
Since mongodb, couchdb are for horizontal scaling and have inbuilt support for replication, what hardware is being used for them ?
Specifically looking for hardware for replicable mongodb instances.
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Scaling MySQL Database
What are the methods or tools used to scale mysql database. We have mysql database that is increasing in size daily. We just allotted a fix hard drive size on it so my concern is that we will need to ...
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How to allow users to monitor performance of a set of servers without touching every server?
I'm not a sysadmin, so this may be trivial.
We have about 20 Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs we want to monitor centrally using Perfmon. The only issue is that the user account that's going to be doing ...
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live coverage setup .. need advice
i plan to live blog from a show and expect atleast 5-10K users on the live blog
I have setup 2 servers
live.domain.com with wordpress running apache and nginx proxy to serve images
(1024MB RAM ...
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Tips for maximizing Nginx requests/sec?
I'm building an analytics package, and project requirements state that I need to support 1 billion hits per day. Yep, "billion". In other words, no less than 12,000 hits per second sustained, and ...
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Scaling a LAMP website hosted on EC2
I'm very new to all this - I've recently managed to launch my website on EC2. As next step, I want to learn how to scale the website. I have a general idea but wanted some input from the experts about ...
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Postgres vs MySQL: Which one is more difficult to scale out?
From your experience, which database serve is more difficult to scale? MySQL or Postgres? I know MySQL has several out-of-the-box scaling/clustering features, but with Postgres there is none that ...
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Windows Server 2008 Web vs Standard
Please tell me what choice will be best between Windows Server 2008 R2 Web edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition for NoSQLDatabase/BackendComputing scaling farm? I am pretty sure that ...
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Amazon Auto Scale : What does as-create-launch-config actually do?
I am setting up autoscaling, and was wondering if I need to create a new launch configuration each time I deploy new code? What does the as-create-launch-config command actually do? Does it tell the ...
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How to deploy web application for 2 million users?
I've been tasked with figuring out how to do a large scale deployment for a high availability, high traffic, dynamic, flash based web application. There is a good possibility that this application can ...
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Does it make sense to add more cluster nodes to an underutilized server?
Let's say I'm running a cluster with two Weblogic server nodes on two servers (Solaris, 4 CPUs, 64 GB RAM each). The heap size is maxed out on these nodes and so each server runs with 40+ GB of free ...
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Roughly how much use could you expect to squeeze out of a ~$1000 MySQL server?
I know this is a horrible, generalized question with no good answer, and I apologize ahead of time, but I wonder if someone could take a stab at a very broad estimate.
Let's say you have a dedicated ...
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Does multipurpose node is a good thing for scaling?
I have a web app with different tiers:
database for persistence
a couple of web servers(mongrels)
load balancer
Now it is all running on the same host. But how can I add another server to handle ...
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How do I scale my EC2 instance?
I'm very new to server configurations and Linux in general, so please bear with me:
I have a small EC2 instance running a LAMP server on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
I'm completely baffled as to how I would ...
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Where to go for a TCP software load balancer with automatic scaling?
We have an interactive flash application running on AWS EC2 instances. One instance can handle between 100 and 200 users. We expect times with heavy growth and slashdot effects. To be prepared and not ...
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Why do we get TCP disconnects when using AWS Elastic Load Balancer?
We are running our servers on AWS EC2 instances. The servers have to provide HTTP on port 80 and RTMP (TCP) on port 1935.
Running a single instance works fine. But as soon as I use Elastic Load ...
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Is there a way to add more backend server to haproxy without restarting haproxy?
We want to be able to add more backend servers on demand. Right now I don't see a way to add more backend servers to the config file without restarting haproxy.
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Scaling a GIF hosting site
My friend runs a popular Youtube-to-GIF conversion site. Right now, he has converted 250,000 Youtube videos to GIFs (each video gets 6 thumbnails for 1.5m total GIF files) and serves about 80TB of ...
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how to go about scaling a web-application?
I am primarily a web-application developer, and I do not know much about scaling/scalability techniques. My application is written in Python, using Django; a fairly standard setup.
I currently use ...
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More RAM vs. more servers
I was recently asked "Do you know when to decide between going for more RAM or more servers?" (in the context of scaling data mining applications).
I had no idea, so what are some ways to decide? I ...
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Scaling up an apache server
I have an Ubuntu server running apache2 which i expect to be hit by around 500-1000 (concurent) users for a limited amount of time. The server serves a mixture of custom (rather light) php pages ...
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Legacy non-dpi-aware application resolution scaling?
Our environment prominently featuers an outdated but absolutely mission-critical Win32 application that is not dpi-aware. It is optimized for an 800x600 display. Most of our users now have 17"-20" ...
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I need Microsoft SQL Clustering/Replication/Scaling Best Practice Resources
I'm trying to plan for our future scalability of our Microsoft SQL 2000/2005/2008 infrastructure. I'm having a hard time finding good information on how to best engineer such services, how to best ...
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Ideas for scaling out database architecture
We're looking to scale out our existing database architecture and need some advice on which way to go.
We currently have 2 web servers behind a load balancer that both read & write to a single ...
