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Which is better: one NFS mount point, or seven?

I have a server that has 7 large disks that are each shared out via NFS to our webserver. My question is: Would it be more efficient if I shared the parent directory so that there was only a single NFS mount point on the webserver, or would it make…
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Maintenance of nginx server with zero downtime

I manage a few servers and for the sake of the question let's consider these three: nginx server: it only runs nginx and serves static files, responses from the disk cache, or passes requests to the API server API server: it returns data and it…
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Why/When to have a separate media server for images, mp3s, flvs etc?

I worked on some websites where they have two servers: one dedicated for serving php web pages, and another dedicated for serving media such as images, flvs, mp3s etc..When you do a view source of a page on http://www.mysite.com, you will see code…
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Server Colocation vs AWS for Hospital System

I have created a software solution for use by hospitals. It uses PHP / MySQL and cannot be compiled into binaries. A hospital that is interested in licensing this software is asking for the PHP code to be hosted on a server that they own, where…
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Where could I find some network architecture courses or good books?

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 course or book about IT architecture strategies that…
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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 the crudity of my diagram (I know it's not even…
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PCI addresses of 2 network ports differ only in "device function" field => they belong to the same NIC?

I have multiple 10G ethernet ports on my server. Here is lspci for some of them: 81:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 81:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit…
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How can I get my local network machines to call local web server by URL?

I have four computers connected to a single switch - unconnected to the internet. One of the computers (the large one in the picture) is more powerful than the others and is running Ubuntu, with three live Node.js web servers with different apps on…
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Is it good practice to set HTTP headers in the load balancer?

I am managing a setup where there are two ngnix application servers behind an nginx reverse proxy. I would like to set some headers like X-XSS-Protection or Strict-Transport-Security. Currently, it's set on both application servers and the load…
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Docker : container by app with LAMP included or LAMP container only?

I have server with 20/30 sites to hosts and I would like to use Docker containers for scalability, maintenability and security. After few searches, I found 2 approaches : one container per application, (with all included such as LAMP), one…
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api connecting from WAN to LAN?

I'm not an application developer - Ill start off with that caveat. In Brief; our development team have asked for me to open a series of ports from WAN to LAN completely bypassing our DMZ. They say this is fine because their api secures the…
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How does the Azure Web Apps architecture look like?

I've had a few outages of 10 to 15 minutes, because apparently Microsoft had a 'blip' on their storages. They told me that it is because of a shared file system between the instances (making it a single point of failure?) I didn't understand it and…
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Imap local cache server

I'am not sure if it's the good place to ask the question. I would like to know if it's possible to have a local Imap cache server. The main IMAP server is by the provider. To improve performance I want to install an Imap on the LAN. When a user…
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Could HAProxy disable the Apache Instance on the same node it is running?

I have a setup with three VMs that are running on a core i74xx. The machines form a LAMP cluster with HAProxy doing the loadbalancing. After running multiple load tests I found out, that throughput doubles as soon as I put the Apache Instance…
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Advice for an EC2 Architecture and Deployment Strategy

My company is currently migrating several websites and PHP web applications (standard LAMP stack) from three in-house servers to Amazon EC2. Because we had only three servers, we clustered several low-traffic websites with perhaps one high-traffic…
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