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Questions tagged [best-practices]

Questions asking for best practices in a given field. Be aware, that sometimes there might be no generally accepted best practices, in which case the question is likely to be closed for being subjective.

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AWS Elastic IP vs. VPC Usage Recommendations: Suggestions?

I'm working on creating a suite of self-training exercises and guides (perhaps eventually a collection of videos or Slideshare presentations) covering a range of systems administration and "ops" related topics. My plan is to prototype and present…
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Consequences of exposing VM storage on same subnet as VM's and hypervisor

I recently purchased a RAID array to store my VM's and segregate the storage from the host machine. Since my needs are pretty simple I've configured the VM's to bridge with the host network (I think they call this "VM network"). My array is also…
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Network design vm virtualization in small office

I just recently bought a 16gb ram, Intel i7 quad core Mac mini to be used as the central point of entry to my network and am looking for advice on how to design a network suitable for a small office. My hardware consist of a couple of laptops, pc…
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Integrity checking vs. audit

In RHEL5 Security Guide using of AIDE for checking software integrity is recomended. And also built-in RPM integrity checking functionality. But frequent checking can be resource demanding and rare might not be very useful. On the other hand,…
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Cisco ASA 8.4+ redirect multiple ports - best practice?

I was wondering whether anyone could advice on best practices as to the best way to redirect multiple ports for single host in the internal network. As I understand this you can only nat a single port per object. This caused a bit of a litter…
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DNS Server 2008 R2 from 2003 - Stand Alone -

We have just implemented two new windows 2008 r2 stand alone servers running dns and they took the place of our old 2003 stand alone servers. Is there residual clean up that would need to be done on our new servers since the old ones have been…
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Is it a good practice use LDAP for auth in a public webapp beside the app DB?

Internet app needs to be really secure. So LDAP for auth got into the game. Instead doing the traditional db with users table, we want to authenticate agains a LDAP server. How good/bad you think it is ?
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NginX installation-source best practice

I'd like to install NginX as a reverse proxy on CentOS. I know three different ways to install NginX: Compile itself Install over EPEL Install over official NginX package repository Which way would you recommend for production use? Are there any…
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How to delay and queue commands for execution at a later time?

My site receives numerous uploads and I can't afford to waste cycles and time processing them on the spot (e.g., trimming, optimizing, resizing, etc.). What technologies exist to delay and queue these non-essential commands for execution at a later…
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Where to store big data (best practices)

I am installing a fresh Ubuntu on our lab server. We have lots of massive genomes which need to be accessed by Apache www-data user. Currently I backed all the data up on external drives. My goal is to have a fresh Ubuntu, install new web apps on…
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Best Practice: Implementing a Full Disk Encryption on laptops

We are thinking about using TruEncrypt full disk encryption to protect the data on our laptops (roughly 15-20 in the healthcare field - XP & Win7). And I was wonder about backups, and not per say the method or the use of a product like…
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Best Practices for publishing to a web server

I have a high traffic PHP based website and have 2 web servers which sit under a load balancer. I only have FTP access to change the files on the 2 servers when I wish to make changes to the site. This will never change. At present I upload only the…
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Active Directory Design

Please assist me in how I design my active directory hierarchy based on the following. We have a corporate office where there 8-10 departments and 200+ <250 users are present. We have two factories and one site office in different geographical…
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What content is best practice to include in a 503 page to provide best user experience in the case of overloaded backend?

The classic example is the "Fail Whale" on twitter. But I'm interested in what people's thoughts are on this.
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Best practices to build a scalable Java webapp

We got this JavaEE WebApp (JSP+Struts+Hibernate+MySQL) which currently is running on a single server. Due to growth of the website and performance issues we've decided to cluster the project on some machines. The Web Site should tolerate something…
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