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Wake On Demand (Load Balanced Solutions ?)

I'm out of idea facing a challenging situation : Wake up a server on demand. The problem Wake-up a physical server that listen on specific port, when an incoming packet arrives. There may be a controller/middleware between clients and the server,…
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Server Infrastructure - China / Australia

I've been working for a while on developing a custom intranet for a client in Australia for the last few years. The difficult part is that, it needs to be accessed as much by the Chinese team as the Australian team and the data must be the same for…
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Seperating web server from database over public network

How much of a risk is it splitting nginx web server from mysql database server and having them talk over public network? The database server would be in the same OVH DC but from what I understand there would latency in the equation. The ping between…
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Harpertown vs Sandy Bridge

I planning to upgrade one of my old harpertown based server to a new alternative but when I look at the comparison, this new one doesn't seem to be better at all, matter of fact if I look at the clock frequency it even seems to be…
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What are common server architectures to build a reliable website

Sorry, if my question looks too general, but I am looking for an answers to specific problems that I listed below and would appriciate any help. My website is growing in popularity and I would like to provide a consistant service for my users. Now I…
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Setup AWS infrastructure to let customers drop files

// Perhaps this is too broad of a question but I've never done any AWS before and am a bit in the weeds - Will delete question if community deems bad. Using AWS, I want to setup an endpoint where customers can upload files via a POST or PUT with an…
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Can I use (these) old servers to test for a setup on a real environment?

I'm new to servers and a friend of mine just gave me 7 free servers from the early 2000's and 2008. 3x 1950 Poweredge (III) Single 2.0ghz CPU 4 cores. 2gb RAM. 64 bit architecture. 1x Unnammed server, 24gb RAM, 2 cpu's total of 8 cores. 8 slots for…
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Setting up a FreeBSD Server for packet filtering and routing

I have heard the many goods of using FreeBSD in Networking over Linux with utils such as pf and ipfw I currently have an multi tier application hosted on a vSphere environment with seperate servers for the application and database how can i…
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What is a good new server setup

Currently we have a server with several functions: domain controller, SQL server, WSUS server, file server, print server, exchange server, backup exec And in addition we still have an old server with a custom program for timekeeping, and then…
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Faking CPU architecture on Debian

I have a server which uses the armhf (armv7l, Cortex A9 ARMv7 to be precise) CPU architecture. I've been trying to install a certain package on it, but that doesn't work. First off, APT mentioned it simply doesn't support the architecture: N:…
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Compare bare metal server with AWS

I was trying to do cost comparison between bare metal servers and cloud servers from AWS. I could not exactly find how to compare a bare metal server with AWS server. AWS servers give capacity in vCPU. I was thinking that I would google and find…
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