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Where could I find some network architecture courses or good books? [closed]

The best source that I found is not really a course, is most like a blog with short stories about succed cases of architecture strategies in highscalability.com My concern is if is there any good ...
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ISA Server for x64 systems? Or recommend other Firewall/Routing/VPN software

we're a website that is going to have two servers behind the Firewall/Router Server (a web server and a database server). All three servers are going to be running Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. Excuse ...
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Dell PowerEdge 1750/1850 using *SATA*?

we're currently looking for a cheap, but reasonably powerful, server to collect analytics and act like a firewall for our Web Application server. It seems a PowerEdge 1750 or 1850 would do the job ...
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Servers - Buying New vs Buying Second-hand

We're currently in the process of adding additional servers to our website. We have a pretty simple topology planned: A Firewall/Router Server infront of a Web Application Server and Database Server. ...
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Statistics and information about large SharePoint farms

I'm looking for informations and statistics about large SharePoint farms. Who runs such a farm? How many users do they have? How many documents do they manage/store? What does the farm architecture ...
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Help putting together a server for Routing/Firewall/VPN purposes

we're currently in the process of putting together our own server Firewall/Router. We were going to use a dedicated solution from someone like Juniper or Watchguard, but it is going to be a lot more ...
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What are all the most essential things to install for YUM?

I am building a server that has all the libraries (of course, they shouldn't take up Gigs of data). So that I can clone it, and will have it all. This server is mainly for web/crawling/databases ...
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I am setting up an architecture for multiple projects on Linux. Different clients. Any advice?

This will probably be on cloud. Can anyone give any general tips on setting up a Admin-server/DB/Web/Processing/Development-environment architecture? Like... Security, only 1 admin server can be ...
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Network (firewall) architecture for a LARGE corporation

I am wondering how many of you who work for LARGE companies have a network architecture that enforces the use of three-separate firewalls to get at the data. In other words: Separation of external (...
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Network (firewall) architecture for a LARGE corporate

I am wondering how many of you who work for LARGE companies have a network architecture that enforces the use of three-separate firewalls to get at the data. In other words: * Separation of external (...
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32 Bit Applications on a 64 Bit OS

Other than memory size limits of 4GB, what is the penalty for running 32 bit applications on an OS running in 64 bit? For example. does a 32 bit application require that it's address space be ...
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Determine Linux Server's Architecture (32 or 64 bit) [duplicate]

I actually just have shared hosting at Dreamhost, and I'm going to use it to test deploying a MongoDB based application. There are 32-bit and 64-bit pre-built distros, but I don't know which I should ...
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need advice on building a scalable architecture for moodle

I'm looking into designing an architecture for a moodle based education site, it will serve several thousand users at first but needs to be able to grow to support hundreds of thousands to millions of ...
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Does the /3GB switch increase the user address space per process or total processes?

It was my understanding that it's per process, not the total processes. But according to Large memory support is available in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000 (KB283037): Typically, a ...
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How do I calculate the Number of Web FrontEnd Servers For SharePoint

How should I arrive at the Number of the Front End Web Servers that are needed for the SharePoint Installation which is going to serve 40K Users.
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Architecture and Virtualization

I'm trying to build an architecture with Virtual Servers for J2EE Web applications Hosting. I've no experience in virtualisation. I currently have 1 server whith Apache/Jboss/Postgresq/Proftpd ...
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Where to go to learn about web architecture? Youtube example? [closed]

I'm trying to build a web application that is similar to Youtube (it's not a knock off), but I guess I don't know how video is served on the internet very well. I know how to build regular database ...
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How do I run a 32bit programme on amd64 server?

As a followup to this question, I have discovered that this closed source programme is 32bit and I have an amd64 server. The server is gentoo that has recently been upgraded. What do I need to ...
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Bash can't start a programme that's there and has all the right permissions

This is a gentoo server. There's a programme prog that can't execute. (Yes the execute permission is set) About the file $ ls prog $ ./prog bash: ./prog: No such file or directory $ file prog prog: ...
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WAN Design Questions

I've been tasked with redesigning our company's WAN in North America. We have two offices in the U.S., one in NY and one in the midwest. We also have offices in Europe. I won't be touching anything in ...
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Suggestions on large scale web applications architecture?

It's a big question:) We are running a website with LAMP that is not big, 5 web servers with LVS load balancing, 3 MySQL servers with replications and separation of reading and writing, and we use ...
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SMTP Outbound-Only: More or less reputable?

I'm reconfiguring some mail architecture and wondering about this... For the purposes of avoiding blacklists and maintaining a good MX reputation, is it better to have: One public IP / SMTP server ...
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Geographical DB synchronus mirroring

An architect in our company has designed a solution based on 64 bit SQL2005 Standard edition synchronous mirroring between a physical (4 quad core, 32GB RAM) server and a virtual DR server (4 virtual ...
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Network Designing

I have seven Sites. Each Site contains about 15 to 20 users who are connect via ADSL and lease line. My question is how to design a network infrastructure. To Solve above problem I Create One Domain ...
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What server architecture is appropriate for a multiplayer online game?

For an online, multiplayer roleplaying game that should be able to support at least 1000 players per server instance, what sort of architecture should I use? I'd like to use Java or PHP as the server ...
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Architecture Choice for an Embedded Display Device

So recently a client asked me to build her a virtual calendar. She's tired of having paper ones and would rather hang a few monitors on the wall instead and have them update themselves wirelessly. ...
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