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AWS cloud architecture

I'm trying to figure out how to deploy my applications on AWS. I have very limited DevOps experience and I'm not sure if my design is good. I have two application, a web application that handles files upload and a processing application that do…
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Latency issues when inserting content to China

Background We have an app that will write into a postgres db hosted in Frankfurt datacenter. The app is installed in each of the 8 sites we have around the world, from China, Korea, India , Germany, France and Mexico. When connecting in Europe, to…
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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 allocated within the first 4 GB or does the OS and…
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Where to go to learn about web architecture? Youtube example?

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 driven web applications, but nothing like the…
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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: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1…
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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 Memcached for caching and some full-text searching…
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How does a SAN architecture work and more importantly scale?

I'm trying to understand some SAN infrastructure and I was hoping some of you with more experience than me could help me understand scaling with a SAN. Imagine that you have some computer servers that have a HBA. They connect either directly or via…
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Google network architecture

I am aware that this question might be closed as "not a real question", "subjective" or even "argumentative". If this is a mistake, I am sorry. I am not good at all at networking but I'm trying to get better and learn more. (you might know the…
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Colour Coding Convention for Server Architecture Block Diagram

Do any colour coding conventions exist for system architecture block diagrams? If not, who/what would be considered the de-facto standard? Is block diagram the correct terminology in this context? Specific hardware/roles of interest are…
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Ceph or Gluster for implementing big NAS

We are planning to build NAS solution which will be primarily used via NFS and CIFS and workloads ranging from various archival application to more “real-time processing”. The NAS will not be used as a block storage for virtual machines, so the…
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Why is my LAN saying "unidentified network"? (Help setting up server architecture)

as some of you may be aware, I'm currently involved in an on-going saga in getting our servers up and running. As pretty much a newb, I'm slowly making progress, but I've hit a stumbling block. Here's a bit more about us: We're a website. We've…
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Is it possible to restrict access to specific domain/path through VPN on AWS

Our current setup is: Client -> ALB -> Target Group -> auto-scaled instances We have some urls that we would like to "hide" behind VPN access such as: Client -> VPN -> ALB -> Target Group -> auto-scaled instances For instances with static IP…
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Should io and cpu intensive servers be separated in kubernetes cluster?

We are designing a new cluster architecture for our web service and are planing to use Ceph object storage and kubernetes for our services. for optimizing our servers We have different options: Use identical servers and run Ceph and our services…
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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. Here's a simple (and technically incorrect)…
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Should our traffic drive our system design or our system design drive our traffic?

A few weeks ago, I have moved to a new company as Linux system administrator, they are going to start a project of moving production servers infrastructure from a data center to Amazon AWS. They are following the concept of "our traffic drive our…
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