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BT socket Device over Structured Cabling

Essentially I have a Credit Card machine which is connected to a phone line via standard BT Socket. So basically, the port of the wall has a balun plugged in which takes the RJ45 outlet on the wall to BT, so I can plug the device in. This works…
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TCPing reports 20ms latency between Web Farm and DB

We have a IIS web farm sitting in a DMZ connecting to a MSSQL DB(Windows Cluster). After troubleshooting some performance problems we stumbled upon strange network behavior. We wanted to test network latency in general between the two servers, but…
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Inter-site linking with a WAN cluster infrastructure

I am planning to deploy an infrastructure of 11 nodes using Opscode Chef, providing for a high availability web application. I would like to spread the nodes across datacentres for availability, for which I'm thinking rrDNS which resolves to one of…
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Opscode Chef nginx compile from source issue reports successful run but does nothing

I am trying to install nginx from source in Opscode Chef and its bit weird, it runs complaining nothing but does not install it either. This is how my role attributes look like looks like "nginx":{ "default_site_enabled":false, …
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How to securely control access to a backend key server?

I need to securely encrypt data in my database so that if the database is dumped, hackers are unable to decrypt the data. I'm planning on creating a simple key server on a different machine, and allowing the DB server access to it (restricted by IP…
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How to model the infrastructure for the Rails application with processor/memory intensive tasks (using EC2)?

I need to model a Rails application that does video processing using Amazon AWS resources (EC2). Application allows users to convert videos. Videos are uploaded by users. Right now it is running on one instance, but I see the need to scale up /…
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Complete small business infrastructure setup solution

BACKGROUND: I am in charge of maintaining the infrastructure of a small (<25 users) family owned business. Here's the setup we currently have. EMAIL SERVER: I started out using one ISP provided email with one outlook express, to using shared…
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Backup a large library

I have a relatively large library of about 50TB that I need to back-up on at least a weekly basis. Currently, the video content is stored across an array of raided 3TB hard drives. I would estimate the amount of new content per week at about…
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On-site campus infrastructure migration to Amazon EC2. Feasible?

After a recent power outage, we've been re-evaluating how we can most effectively provide, maintain, and support our IT resources. One idea we've been considering is to move our non-critical infrastructure into the cloud. For example, we could…
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Best practice to trunk two GB switches?

I already read some similar questions but I still have no clue on how to do it the right way. I have a D-Link DGS-1248T 48 port GB-switch with 4 mini GBIC ports and I want to connect it to another switch. My questions are: Do I need another D-Link…
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Auditing user behavior in a small organization to prepare IT restructuring

My company will be working on restructuring/rethinking the whole IT infrastructure for a small company (about 25 employees). A part of this is a migration to Google Apps for email, calendar, etc. That leaves many other things to think about (file…
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General Network Infrastructure

I have a number of servers that I rent out to people and have started growing to a point where I need better management. Specifically I am interested in being able to police bandwidth and block port 25 outgoing totally. All I have right now in my…
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does a router in front of another router need to be as good as or better?

If I have a server that is sitting behind two routers, does the first and foremost router have to be "better" than the one behind it that is connected to the server? For example, if there was a server, doing whatever, averaging thousands of…
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Two routers or one router and WAP?

I have an ADSL2 router/modem with internet access and I want to access 3 IP cameras (3 network clients) over wireless behind that router from the internet. My problem is that the ADSL2 router/modem does not support wireless. Now, I have the…
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What default Windows setting to change to optimize for performance?

Introduction: I am responsible for more than 100 PC's in a medium sized company, and when I install new PC's with the default windows settings, I always wonder which settings could actually be changed to optimize the PC for performance (without loss…
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