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.
Questions tagged [best-practices]
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What are industry standards and professional best practices in network hosts naming?
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Naming convention for computers
It seems an important and difficult dilemma for me how to name network hosts (routers, servers (while a server can be a router and host diverse services at the same time), virtual machines…
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Reserve Web Server - How to synchronize them almost in real time
Maybe my question is a little bit stupid, but idea is to have a reserve web server, which will be activated WHEN main web server becomes inactive (DDos, or any other incident).
Please name common practices for this solution. Operation system will be…
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How to detect weak points in my lan
I am starting to "polish" the LAN here at my new work and since it's the 1st time I face sommething that big (almost 300 clients a switches, proxy) I would like to understand easily where I get weak points (read: 10mbit hubs hidden under desks)…
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Windows Server 2003 DNS: What is the purpose of Forward Lookup Zones?
What is the purpose of Forward Lookup Zones?
I have a domain abc.com setup in DNS as a forward lookup zone. Now I want to add a new domain xyz.com to my DNS.
I looks like I can either create a new forward lookup zone for xyz.com or I can create a…
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Windows Server 2019 Best Practices Analyzer - Error is Fixed but a new scan still displays same error. What to do?
Server OS: Windows 2019
Roles: Hyper-V, DC, DNS, etc. (2 vms on Hyper-V RDS vm and DC vm)
The old IT team had this configuration now I want to change it to best practices.
BPA scan on Server Manager > Local Server shows some errors/warnings but even…
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Best practices for running several docker containers on one machine
I have recently built a physical server, this is a first for me as I've previously been using VPS's and other cloud-based solutions. I'm currently planning on hosting a few containers on this server:
A Minecraft server to play with friends
A…
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Php and shell_exec are a good way to process many detached process on a CentOs server?
During execution of a php webservice, i need to detach a "time consuming function" to maintain a quick response to the user. That's an example of the flow :
I know that php does not manage multi-thread operation by itself, but anyway there are some…
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Terraform advice - structure
I am starting using Terraform and imported my current infrastructure from Azure using aztfy (im starting to think that was a bad idea...)
Now I have all my resources in in single main.tf file... security group, network, disk, instance...
I would…
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Why not nuke an machine after malware cleanup?
So this is a noob question.
Why do we perform a clean up on a machine that has been infected with malware and not nuke it directly instead? I understand that in some situations this would not be possible(like large DB servers or when we don't have a…
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Best practices for PHP ini settings for large wordpress site?
I own a large wordpress site that gets
500k+ visitors
30+ plugins (some heavy)
server with 128 GB RAM
Wondering if there are "best practices" for php.ini settings for larger sites on Linux? I think my host may be cutting corners to save bandwidth,…
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Is Cloud Best Practice To Still Have Multiple Disks (Volumes) For a Server?
In the old days of physical servers, it was considered good practice (at least at the places I have worked at) for a server to always have at least two disks (volumes) no matter how simple an application was being hosted.
One disk for the Operating…
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Active Directory (DNS) BPA: Interface should register its IP addresses in DNS with Server Core
How to solve the following compliance error message when using the Best Practices Analyzer with DNS running on Windows Server Core?
Problem:
The interface Ethernet 2 is not configured to register its addresses in DNS.
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IP addresses on the…
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what number of azure subscriptiions is too many?
My organisation has 50 azure subscriptions at the moment and is planning to grow to well over 500 for several reasons: each application will have its own subscription, techies have their own subscription, dev environments are created ad-hoc. There…
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What is Microsofts intention regarding centralized access control, flattening Active Directory in Azure?
SF: You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.
Forwarding: This question may be debatable regarding the answerable-part. However, for me this is an actual problem regarding best-practices and I think…
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Security best practice: revoke execution (-x) permissions for directory, or do recursively to change every contained file?
I have a question about security best practice when configuring a device to be used to users, who should be able to use a programme, but not modify the system.
Let's say I have a folder /opt/myapp containing numerous files that my programme reads.…
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