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Infrastructure-oriented testing Methodology

In software development, there are plenty of testing methodology that one can adopt during the software lifecycle. Is there anyone aware of a testing methodology that is infrastructure oriented or that can simply be applied to implement tests for an…
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Best infrastructure configuration for application hosting (IIS/MSSQL)? Bare Metal, Virtualize?

We're a small consulting shop that hosts some public facing websites and web applications for clients (apps we've either written or inherited). Our strength lies in coding, not necessarily in server management. However a managed hosting solution…
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How to design the infrastructure for an application serving USA and Canada?

I am developing a service that will be applicable for both Americans and Canadians, the data collected and stored are not legally allowed to cross the borders...which is new to my knowledge. So what is the best practice to serve both countries? We…
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Pros and cons of using appliances

I previously had negative feelings toward dedicated appliances. I enjoy getting my hands dirty and knowing the ins and outs of our infrastructure. However, after some discussion with my colleague earlier today, I'm wondering if that's the actual…
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Setting Up Development Environment for Distributed Team

I need to set up a development environment for a small distributed team of under 5 programmers to build a site using Drupal. Development is done by each programmer on his/her own machine. Ideally, we would have all servers in the same farm as the…
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How do you ensure that two data network links have no SPOF?

How do you ensure that two data network links have no SPOF (Single Point of Failure)? We are working on a datacenter network connectivity and need to ensure that there will be no SPOF. We will have two network links to connect to the data…
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AWS Cloudformation Template error: every Ref object must have a single String value

SNSTopic Type: 'AWS::SNS'...... SNSTopic2 Type: 'AWS::SNS'....... EventRule: Type: 'AWS::Events::Rule' Properties: Name: !Ref EventRuleName Description: State: ENABLED EventPattern: ' { }' …
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A good method of mapping our AWS server infrastructure

Small company. We have an fairly robust application we built that runs on AWS that serves many clients. Our Sys Admin / Lead Developer has left the company and took with him knowledge we didn't all share. Our other developers easily picked up the…
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Is it possible to make website that is using the cloudflare dns proxy work during cloudflare outage?

I thought about setting up a small server with nginx reverse proxy, adding its IP as A dns without cloudflare dns proxy next to main A record with CF dns proxy enabled, so it will be a backup option if the CF dns will go down. Is it possible to do…
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What would be some Patterns and Anti-Patterns for deploying mirrored environments in AWS (or other cloud providers)

I am looking to find some good patterns and anti-patterns for deploying mirrored environments (for simplicity lets say an EC2 Instance, and RDS and S3 bucket, which is a pretty common set-up). Lets say we have to do this hundreds or even thousands…
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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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Required switch per building

Conventions: - Building: Called building, in fact it is a container (used for shipment 42ftx8ft). The scenario: - There are 4 buildings installed on the ground, separated between 32ft(10m) and 49ft(15m) long. - Each building hast its own cabling…
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Setup a private network between my 7 dedicated servers in different data centers?

I have 7 dedicated servers running at a host provider. Whenever I order a new server I cannot rely on having my servers being setup in the same rack, so I cannot have a physical private network between them. Instead I currently setup SSH tunnels…
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VM Infrastructure client reporting an error in our HA/DRS Cluster

Our VM infrastructure client is reporting that one of the ESX hosts is reporting an error. The error is: "HA agent on esx2 in cluster Ha/DRS Cluster 1 in Datacenter has an error Has anyone experienced this? Thanks.
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Does Open-stack supports heterogeneous servers as infrastructure

My company uses Apache cloud stack, but we are planing on upgrading our on premise cluster, and change our IAAS from Cloud-Stack to Open-stack my question is, can we use different servers generations, CPUs. I found services online that offer…
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