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Benchmarking hosting providers IO with Bonnie

Ok, because of a bunch of projects I'm working on I've access to dedicated Servers on a 3 hosting providers. As an experiment and for educational purposes I decided to see if I could benchmark how good the IO is with each. Bit of research lead me to…
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May I use CDN for whole website (PHP, Apache, MySQL) or just for images and CSS, JS files?

May I use CDN for whole website (PHP, Apache, MySQL) or just for images and CSS, JS files? What's the best choice > cloud-hosting or dedicated-hosting? Does CDN has that support? Witch hosting you suggest me the best - the fastest, stablest 100%…
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What is the best cloud technology to use for MongoDB/GridFS database servers

We are going to launch a service that will require between 1 and 2 GB for file storage per paid user. I am going to use GridFS for storing files. GridFS is a module for MongoDB that allows to store large files in de database. I am pondering the…
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Recommendations for a cloud/hosted server environment that can run different Windows VMs?

I currently have a colocated Win 2008 server that I use for hosting different windows VMs for testing: Win 2008, Win XP, Vista, Win7, Win 2000. I'd like to ditch the server and use something like Amazon AWS but the key thing is I need to be able to…
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Reselling from a VPS (cloud server)

I am currently administering about 15 small websites (total bandwidth never exceeds 1.5 GB/month) on a shared reseller host using cPanel and WHM. I'm about to migrate these sites to a virtual cloud server from Rackspace. How would I go about…
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Hosted VPN Server

I would like to find a way to allow multiple computers to securely join a shared network. Ideally we would like to find a complete hosted solution, or run a server on Rackspace or Amazon EC2. I have attempted to install Openswan and xl2tpd on a…
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Are there any hosting providers or cloud computing providers providing services with IPv6?

You hear a lot of talk about IPv6, but I have yet to see it in the wild. Are there any hosting providers or cloud computing providers that offer services that use IPv6? I'm not looking for something like the Hurricane Electric tunnel broker. I'd…
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Best Linux distribution in Rackspace for Java applications

When choosing a Linux distribution available in Rackspace to host a Java application running on Tomcat (or JBoss) and accessing a MySQL database, what do you take into account? For me it seems more a matter of taste; I wonder if a specific…
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Install Package dependencies separately over Cloud

Install Package dependencies separately over Cloud Hi all, I am working on a project that sets up packages on the cloud. For example, If i want to setup Drupal, i need seperate machines to maintain separate tasks, like mysql in one machine(cloud…
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Features to identify a true cloud host

I'm reading around to understand cloud computing, and I saw 2 comments that prompted this question: "Cloud" is a marketing term. The actual implementation is what really matters. If you can get detailed info on the architecture of the…
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How to move from a physical server to an online server?

My father has a small company: 10 PCs running Windows, 1 running Windows Server 2000 and 1 Fax/Printer. I want to remove the server and make the network based on an Online server. Can I do that? If yes, how? By using a Windows VPS? Linux VPS with…
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About to go live: virtual dedicated server or cloud?

I am about to launch my startup company, and we will be going live in a few weeks time. We have really tight budgetary constraints, since we are bootstrapping - and would prefer not to raise external capital. I cant use shared hosting because I need…
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Rackspace Cloud Sites: Compute Cycles exploding. Very expensive

Since last week my compute cycles (CC) went through the roof (Rackspace Cloud Sites). Normally I stay under the 10,000 cycles per month . Now this month I already have more than 75,000 compute cycles. I don't have more visitors and I did not change…
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Suggestions for iPhone game server hosting

I'm working on an iPhone application which requires a server component. The game would interact with the server using JSON and would essentially be a CRUD interface to a database backend. I don't expect the application to be enormously popular, but…
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Azure CPU Memory And Percentage

my question is, the memory percentage seems high. We had a client say they couldn't get a response from our APIS over the weekend, and so far i can't see anything in the logs. I can see that they didn't hit our servers apis but i can't tell if its…
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