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How to expose multiple databases in local network for other applications to connect with them

I am following up this question here, in which I made the incorrect assumption of being able to access a database using HTTP. Because I seem to lack conceptual knowledge, I would like to ask a more general question first: What's a good way to expose…
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Is two web servers and one shared file server a good idea?

Current problem: we have a single web server that hosts a website with user generated content the server constantly needs more upgrades to keep up with the storage space it's hard to make changes without temporarily disabling the website Idea to…
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Where would Caddy2 fit into our server (possibly AWS) architecture chain for enabling custom domains and subdomains?

I'm in the process of re-architecting our web application so that it's more scalable. One of the requirements is to allow customers to point custom domains AND subdomains at our site, which our Laravel PHP application will work with to determine the…
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how to check prod deployment in a complex cloud environment?

My application is made of several "services" (APIs, DBs, web servers, backend, frontend/BFF) that must be integrated with similar applications developed by other teams in the company. We have "dev" and pre-prod environments that are more or less…
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Multiple WP websites, high availability setup

We are moving to a new production environment and I came up with the following setup. For the 20-25 client websites we have, I wanted to do the following: DigitalOcean Load Balancer Two DO Droplets where the second is actually a 'clone' of the…
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Print Infrastructure: How many LAN printers is too many?

I am a new network administrator for a larger company that is planning on moving to a new building. Currently I am working on designing a layout for each office, as well as the warehouse in terms of how everyone's printers and PC's will be hooked…
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Redundant server with internet access

First sorry for the noob question, but I am kind of lost here. Here is what I have: An N number of workstations that are communicating with private servers. Server 1 is production and server 2 is backup. Usually none of them will need internet…
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Middle sized company server architecture

I am designing server for middle sized company which should offer services as accountancy software, property record software, file server etc. My idea is using Hyper V server as type 1 hypervisor. As virtual OSes I need use Windows for one of the…
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How to implement firewall to grant network access for VPN users as-needed (per-user principle of least privilege, OpenVPN)

How can I setup OpenVPN in conjunction with my firewall in such a way that my VPN users' traffic is DROPed by default to all network resources, and only ACCEPTed through the firewall if that user requires access to the specific resource? I have an…
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How to make a remote server be invisible to a web user

I have a webserver www.example.com that takes user input and calculates results on a remote server
Now the user is on the second server. How do I keep the user on the main server (or make www2 invisible to…
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docker-compose + traefik - direct traffic to services outside the docker-compose network

I apologize in advance for the length - but this is interesting, especially for architects and traefik wizards. The Challange: The bottom line is, I'm hoping that there's a setup in which we can leverage traefiks dynamic config capability to: detect…
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Staging environment keeping up to date with new prod data

In most companies I've seen, the prod/staging dichotomy is articulated as follows, using Facebook's live feed as a running example: prod (obviously) stays up to date with new incoming posts, messages, etc staging environments are prod snapshots…
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Best mysql database architecture for a worldwide project

I would like to know your opinion about how to build the best database architecture posible. This is a website, let's say it is a forum, with traffic from everywhere around the globe. I'm trying to figure out the best way, because now we have…
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What's the rationale behind using reverse-proxy in front of an application server?

Why do application server documentations always recommend using a reverse-proxy like Nginx? Take a random app server like Gunicorn or a built in server for NPM, what's the rationale behind using Nginx in front of them? Is this merely to handle load?…
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Azure microservices deployment

I want to develop and host my portfolio on Azure, since I have free money every month thanks to the MSP Program. My portfolio will be made of 3 services: a frontend app using React a backend app using Asp.Net Core a database for storing articles…
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