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442 questions linked to/from Can you help me with my capacity planning?
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mongodb, does one *need* a replica set for a minimal production db?
I'm fairly new to mongodb, and am tackling some devops issues here.
We have a b2b saas product deployed on AWS where there is no network effect between customers, and some customers have much, much ...
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KVM: Best performance for all guests
With KVM, what is the best way to provide the highest possible performance to all VMs?
The host has a hexa-core processor and 64GB of ram. 3-4 VMs should run on it.
The VMs are idle a lot of the time, ...
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Is Hyper-V a good choice for installing DC and Exchange 2013 servers on one bare metal server? [closed]
I would like to ask you guys, who already done some Hyper-V implementation if it's good idea to use this solution for set-up a small company infrastructure.
The idea is to have 1 physical server (2 ...
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how to scale a high traffic server? [closed]
I'm very confused on techniques for scaling servers
Say you had one high traffic server running on one computer with one 12 core CPU, and one server for a database.
For a while that would work, but ...
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Hyper-V Server SSD vs NVME M.2
I'm quite novice on setting up servers and VMs and I'm trying to setup a simple PC to act up as a server in an office. The requirements are low but I think this is a good opportunity for me to learn ...
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Core & Edge switch design: backplane as a point of failure?
We are in the midst of planning a re-cabling of the building and installing new switches. A few different designs have been proposed, and one such design puts our core switches at the heart of our ...
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Apple XServe, Installing Linux on it? [closed]
Basically, I will be running multiple VM's on my XServe.
I wanted the Main OS to be very lightweight and not a memory hog.
I am not sure but I feel like OS X Server is not very lightweight, also ...
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between ex4 and XFS which is better for large small files [closed]
Between EXT4 and XFS which file system is better when an application uses multiple threads to read/write large amount of small files on a SSD.
From what I read
In general, Ext3 or Ext4 is better if ...
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Unbound : what capacity will i need on drive? [closed]
I'm planning to set up my own dns server (for a cybercafe, 30 computers)
what size will unbound need on hdd after months of use ?
Mb, Gb, Tb ?
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PHP5-FPM pm.max_children affect RAM or CPU+RAM?
Recently inherited a Nginx+PHP5-FPM server, and I'm learning and trying to optimize PHP5-FPM settings.
Server info:
4 CPUs (8 threads)
7.5 GiB RAM
PHP5-FPM info:
pm.max_children = 5
pm....
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How to connect 2 parts of a facility using fiber optic cable?
Here's a quick rundown:
We currently occupy half of a large facility which is 100k square feet. In our current space (which is 50k square feet obviously) we have about 50 work stations and 40 IP ...
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What is the internet Bandwidth needed to support 2000 concurrent requests?
For one our projects, we need to calculate the internet bandwidth required to support 2000 concurrent requests/per second. Following is the scenario detail:
If 1 user accesses the page, the ...
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Memcached cachesize 512M or 1G for VPS 2G? [closed]
I just started to use memcached on a VPS with 2Go of RAM.
I set the cache size at 512 Mb, but I am wondering if I can go for 1024Mb.
On the VPS there are:
a local business website with very few ...
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Windows Server Configuration with Exchange, SQL Express and IIS [closed]
In our small office we are currently running a standalone tower server with WS 2008 R2, SQL Express and IIS. This server is going to be decommissioned and scrapped as its old and very noisy.
We are ...
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Raid 10 to SSD's or not?
I have R620 server. I have that disks:
4x512GB Samsung SSD
4x1TB Seagate ES.2 HDD
I will use Vmware Esxi to create virtual machines. What's the best option? Using SSD's as primary drives and use ...