Highest scored 'cloud' questions - Page 4

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Does a VPN requirement kill the concept of having a Web Application in the Cloud?

Recently I posted a question in SO, but so far I got no answers. I wonder if I'm asking the wrong question. This is the problem: We need to design an application which offers a public http web ...

Christian

133

asked Jan 7, 2011 at 0:57

2 votes

4 answers

313 views

Building an S3 type of Storage Cloud

Are there any open source projects to build Storage as a Service type of Clouds like Amazon S3 ??

Prashanth Raghu

139

asked Aug 28, 2011 at 7:30

2 votes

2 answers

182 views

Looking for recommendations on how to evaluate replacement of on-premise server with new server or go to cloud

My business has about 15 people in a single location. We've lived forever off a local Windows Server for file sharing (about 800 GB) and access to our accounting system, which is also file system ...

Howiecamp

495

asked Apr 9, 2014 at 17:52

2 votes

7 answers

298 views

Is cloud hosting, computing, server etcetra a buzz phrase?

I want an unbiased approach towards cloud term that is being hyped today. Is this really a new term, new dimension or is it just a buzz phrase to re-market existing technologies. Personally I think ...

mhb

125

asked Sep 16, 2010 at 21:18

2 votes

3 answers

188 views

Securely connect to mainframe from cloud

I will preface this by saying that I am a solution architect, and I have a client who wishes to host an app in the cloud. The app needs to access information from SAP and other systems. What is the ...

Darbio

557

asked Mar 23, 2012 at 12:03

2 votes

4 answers

459 views

Why should we consider Azure?

It seems like Azure is getting a lot of buzz lately, but it's doesn't seems to make sense for us. Here are our basic details Primarily .NET/Microsoft Primarily intranet applications, but also have ...

Jacob Adams

121

asked Feb 2, 2010 at 16:30

2 votes

2 answers

201 views

What are the basic specs for private cloud via Ubuntu?

We would like to build our own private cloud on Ubuntu. The services will be served via VMs are: Active directory, DNS, File serving, ERP application server, SMTP server, Continuous integration Build ...

fotag

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asked Mar 22, 2011 at 16:02

2 votes

4 answers

193 views

Distributed computing for a company? Is there such a 'free' thing?

I am new to the whole distributed computing / cloud thing. But I had an idea at work for our multimedia stuff like movie encoding / cpu intensive things tasks (which sometimes take a few hours). Is ...

Jakub

380

asked Apr 30, 2010 at 15:22

2 votes

2 answers

728 views

How can a programmer manage multiple (geographically disparate) linux machines?

I am not an admin, but I have to manage around 10 linux servers. These servers are all over the world, some are used as production servers, others as staging or development servers. Currently there ...

user23398

1,241

asked Oct 19, 2009 at 21:14

2 votes

3 answers

97 views

How can I keep a third-party cloud provider accountable for guest VM performance?

I support an ERP system for a manufacturer. We're experiencing intermittent application performance issues on our database, hosted on VMware by a third-party cloud provider. (They're a smaller ...

durette

164

asked May 20, 2016 at 17:56

2 votes

3 answers

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All DNS queries to AD DNS server suffixed with xxxxx.cloudapp.net

I configured an Azure VM with Windows 2012 R2 and the DNS Server role installed. I have another VM in the same VNet and I am using nslookup to query the DNS server. Every time I query any domain ...

blizz

1,154

asked Nov 3, 2015 at 5:37

2 votes

2 answers

300 views

Two hosting providers running simultaneously... possible / not possible? good practice / unnecessary?

For the sake of their reputation, I won't mention the names. But I'll just use: Business I worked for previously - ABC Web Dev Hosting company they used - XYZ Hosting I recently found out that XYZ ...

user29600

429

asked Mar 7, 2011 at 23:19

2 votes

1 answer

5k views

GCP projects limit and immediate deletion

I have two related questions re. GCP and limit on a number of projects: A) Is there a hard limit on the number of projects allowed per organization? I know the default limit can be increased, just ...

Stepan

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asked Aug 7, 2018 at 18:48

2 votes

1 answer

108 views

Is there more than one provisioning technology named fog? [closed]

I have a puppet installation in which I tried to check the fog version (for cloud provisioning), but I got no response so I assumed it was not installed. I need fog in order to utilize the vmware ...

Carl Carlson

169

asked Nov 25, 2013 at 23:00

2 votes

1 answer

2k views

Hosted fault-tolerant (replicated) memcache solution in amazon ec2 cloud?

does anyone offer a fault-tolerant (replicated) memcache solution that is hosted in amazon ec2, needs zero maintenance and works with providing just one IP? I know that amazon offers ElastiCache. But ...

Marcel

150

asked Nov 22, 2011 at 10:54

2 votes

4 answers

1k views

Free (or OS) cloud backup program [closed]

I am looking for program which would allow me to backup data from Windows web server 2008 to cloud storage (Amazon, Rackspace and so on) - sites and mssql express backup files and automatically ...

Walium

21

asked May 1, 2011 at 22:00

2 votes

2 answers

469 views

In Rackspace cloud, it is true that a 2GB server is faster than the default 256MB server?

For example...when I do string.find("..."), will it be faster because the CPU is allocated more?

Alex

8,591

asked Mar 15, 2010 at 8:08

2 votes

1 answer

3k views

What is the point of running self managed kubernetes cluster?

I have been researching k8s lately. I am a bit confused by the idea of self managing k8s cluster in the cloud. I have read about people doing it, but still I am not sure what are the price benefits if ...

hahcho

123

asked Nov 25, 2019 at 13:56

2 votes

1 answer

525 views

Using different cloud hosts for app and db/will there be latency with Mongo Atlas?

Is it ok to host both a web app and db server on different cloud providers? Traditionally you really needed to host both on the same network - but I'm wondering if, with modern networks, this is less ...

The Huff

21

asked Jul 14, 2017 at 3:06

2 votes

3 answers

263 views

Backups of roaming laptop/private cloud

This seems like a simple 'what tool to use for x' question, but it's more general. I'm rapidly running out of ideas, so I hope to get some insight here. We have a customer that has employees with ...

Halfgaar

8,204

asked May 7, 2013 at 7:30

2 votes

4 answers

316 views

Question regarding uptime strategy for website

I'm working on a website where we need to have a good deal of uptime. Specially in the short bursts (15-day periods) that the website's events happen. The page is dead simple and can be served ...

Julian

545

asked Feb 11, 2011 at 18:43

2 votes

3 answers

691 views

Blade Server Cluster High Availability Questions

I have a poweredge 1855 blade server with 10 blades I am trying to setup the system to handle: 1 plesk server for mail and dns + dns replication to another machine 1 system for httpd & mysql 1 ...

user30008

21

asked Feb 5, 2010 at 18:25

2 votes

1 answer

3k views

How to setup Nginx/Apache on Oracle Cloud Instance?

My server IP is 132.145.167.69. I have set up Nginx and allowed inbound/outbound traffic, still not able to open the IP in the browser or get anything in Nginx access.log. On Server: curl -I http://...

Milind Singh

153

asked Sep 27, 2019 at 14:06

2 votes

1 answer

3k views

Can Azure cloud servers use customer-owned IPs?

Question: Can Microsoft Azure servers appear to use customer-owned public IP addresses? My company is migrating on-premise VMs to Azure cloud. Some of our servers use static public IPv4 addresses (...

Happyblue

75

asked Jan 18, 2019 at 7:34

2 votes

2 answers

3k views

Azure backup VPN tunnel

Is it possible to set up a failover site to site VPN tunnel in Azure? I have one tunnel already established to local network "MyLocalNet". I want to set up a second tunnel with a different endpoint ...

blizz

1,154

asked Apr 19, 2015 at 16:27

2 votes

2 answers

5k views

Openstack: Starting multiple shutoff intances

I am using Openstack Icehouse running on Ubuntu. After rebooting Compute node all instances that were running there will be in shutoff state. Is there way to restart them all at once? Only thing I ...

Madoc Comadrin

610

asked Aug 1, 2014 at 5:53

2 votes

1 answer

355 views

Serving multiple web-service instances [closed]

We're building an API-based web solution on Python which is going to be delivered to individual customers. Each customer is going to have a separate dataset. Currently, it's not a problem to deploy ...

kolypto

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asked Mar 12, 2014 at 23:51

2 votes

2 answers

96 views

Application-transparent encryption among cloud-deployed servers

I'm a software engineer and not necessarily an ops guy aside from having done a developer's share of dealing with deployment issues. The individual components of the web app I'm working on will be ...

codesurgeon

121

asked Nov 5, 2012 at 13:04

2 votes

1 answer

232 views

Virtualization vs Cloud [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between a cloud server a virtual server and a dedicated server? Can anyone explain the difference between virtualization and cloud (w.r.t. citrix and ...

Bijo

229

asked Oct 3, 2011 at 2:19

2 votes

1 answer

116 views

What is a good, cheaper, alternative to a fully load balanced dedicated server?

First a bit of background - We have a full redundant setup for a client consisting of 2 web servers (win 2008), 2 database servers (SQL server - one active, one passive), an SSL load balancer and a ...

Richard Reddy

123

asked Jun 17, 2011 at 10:15

2 votes

3 answers

471 views

Provisioning development environment on the Cloud

I'm planning a development environment on the cloud. My target platform is Microsoft .Net and preferred cloud id Amazon AWS (although I'm open for suggestions). I'm planning to purchase a High-Memory ...

Kabeer

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asked Jul 12, 2010 at 15:10

2 votes

2 answers

261 views

How to persist changes to instances in the cloud

I must be missing something here, but can someone clue me in on how to persist changes (such as software installs etc) on machines in the cloud (either EC2 or my own Eucalyptus cloud). I have ...

Peter Nunn

452

asked Jun 4, 2010 at 4:50

2 votes

3 answers

231 views

I need a relatively cheap host, which will be able to handle sudden peaks in traffic? [closed]

We're launching a product in a few months, which will obviously have a website. Judging from our current traffic, we believe that overall traffic will probably not be that much, but we are aiming at ...

Morten K

asked Dec 19, 2009 at 11:05

2 votes

3 answers

2k views

Blocking IP addresses Load Balanced Cluster

We're using HAproxy as a front end load balancer / proxy and are looking for solutions to block random IP addresses from jamming the cluster. Is anyone familiar with a conf for HAProxy that can block ...

user35647

121

asked Apr 1, 2009 at 6:25

2 votes

2 answers

3k views

GKE metrics agent logging many errors

We have created GKE cluster and we are getting errors from gke-metrics-agent. The errors shows up every cca 30 minutes. It's always the same 62 errors. All the errors have label k8s-pod/k8s-app: "...

Melchy

63

asked Oct 16, 2021 at 9:52

2 votes

1 answer

1k views

How I can send all logs from journald to GCP Logging?

Don't know what to add more to question, just want to send all logs. My applications write logs to journald, there is no files on disk. UPD. Just to clarify, there are files where journald store logs, ...

Raf

173

asked Sep 25, 2021 at 12:42

2 votes

2 answers

2k views

Can't create free-tier AWS RDS DB

I can't seem to create a 12-month free-tier AWS RDS DB running MySQL. According to AWS, the following requirements need to be met for a 12-month free-tier RDS DB: 750 Hours per month of db.t2.micro ...

jlnkls

23

asked Sep 9, 2021 at 10:24

2 votes

1 answer

1k views

CALCULATE IOPS FROM MB/S

I'm going to set up three storage Ceph server with cluster. Each server has 9300-8i controller with 8*2tb sata ssd disks. Overall throughout of 8 drives and per drive throughout is mentioned below. So ...

Rajamanivel Rajarathinam

21

asked Apr 14, 2021 at 11:59

2 votes

1 answer

2k views

Can I run my onprem domain and Azure AD Domain Services at the same time?

I currently have a hybrid environment that's syncing with O365/Azure. Can I run my on prom domain along with Azure AD Domain services at the same time with no conflicts? I'm trying to set up a backup ...

gchapmangt

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asked Oct 24, 2019 at 20:02

2 votes

1 answer

703 views

AWS Cloud Map Certificate

I really love AWS Cloud Map (Service Discovery in AWS). It integrates with the AWS DNS to make service discovery very simple. Just register an instance of a service and you can discover the service ...

hangonstack

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asked Jul 26, 2019 at 23:28

2 votes

2 answers

661 views

Does cloud object versioning ignore objects with no changes?

I have a service that generates large data sets where only a few of the files actually change and the rest remain unchanged (but are still in the data folder). We need to keep each version of the data ...

Network Effects

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asked Mar 18, 2019 at 17:34

2 votes

1 answer

7k views

Google Cloud : Remove account form google-sudoers

I desired to give an access to dev team, so I created 'tempuser' and then cmd to grant ssh connection following tempuser@instance-1:~$ gcloud compute ssh tempuser@instance-1 It worked well, but It ...

Tela

21

asked Aug 29, 2016 at 17:42

2 votes

1 answer

6k views

Should I deploy hadoop on physical machines or virtual machines?

We will deploy a hadoop cluster on hundreds(say 300) of physical x86 nodes. Since we have no much production deployment experience, there is a simple question as the title we want to hear response ...

John Wang

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asked Apr 23, 2015 at 8:54

2 votes

2 answers

255 views

Reliably send small amount of mail from possibly blacklisted cloud IPs

So you boot a new cloud server. Only to discover that its IP is blacklisted by misbehavior of the previous owner. How to make sure your mail gets delivered for a modest price? Context: I provide my ...

Willem

2,922

asked Feb 4, 2015 at 12:57

2 votes

2 answers

3k views

Backup microsoft SQL server 2008 to OneDrive [closed]

Is there an option to automate a backup to Microsoft Onedrive every night? The machine is a Windows server 2008 R2. I would like to to able to automatically upload my backups to OneDrive. I was ...

Rezkin

21

asked Nov 19, 2014 at 19:26

2 votes

2 answers

574 views

What's the best 'out of the box' way to copy files to a cloud server?

I need to copy files to a newly provisioned Amazon Windows 2008 server. FTP seems to be frowned upon these days, so what is the recommended way of getting files to the machine? Ideally without ...

John Francis

133

asked Aug 29, 2013 at 8:34

2 votes

1 answer

5k views

Possible to setup OpenVPN between two servers? And how?

Apologies if this is a FAQ but I did not find it in the answers, hence, I'm positing it here. I have a following scenario and I am curious how can I use OpenVPN-(AS) to solve my issue. I have two ...

Atul Kulkarni

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asked Aug 27, 2012 at 23:10

2 votes

2 answers

813 views

Cannot connect to Windows Azure virtual network with netgear router

Has anyone sucessfully connected to a Windows Azure Virtual network using a Netgear router? I am attempting to connect to a Windows Azure virtual network using a Netgear FVS318G VPN firewall router. ...

Euris Rodrigue

41

asked Aug 14, 2012 at 14:35

2 votes

3 answers

220 views

Administration of IaaS versus PaaS

Am I correct in understanding that generally IaaS (looking primarily at rackspace cloud servers) will provide a virtual server where OS updates, software updates, anti-virus, managed backups and other ...

dmr83457

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asked Mar 10, 2012 at 18:04

2 votes

2 answers

5k views

When loading a wordpress site, is more CPU or RAM better?

I'm trying to find a host that can handle traffic spikes for wordpress sites. I can't decide between cloud hosting or a VPS. I know with the cloud I believe the CPU power is elastic and can expand if ...

v15

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asked Nov 16, 2011 at 20:39

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