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Hot swapping for Linux web/database servers

Is there a way to perform the following under Linux: There are two web servers, main and backup There are two database servers (postgres), main and backup Web Servers are in sync with each other, ie. configuration/content/applications are the…
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SharePoint Server Farm, what to do with an old server?

so we've procured a monster of a SQL Cluster and 4 screaming fast machines running the apps/WFE to start up our MOSS 2007 Enterprise Server farm, however I've got one server from the old server farm configuration that was just re-imaged and is still…
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Migrating 9 virtual machines to 1 server or pc

I have a build system set up which has 5 pcs and that has a total of 9 virtual machines using Hyper-V. I want to update this infrastructure and cut out the need for 5 physical pcs. Is there a way to host all 9 virtual machines on 1 pc or server so…
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How do the TLD DNS servers handle so many zone file updates?

I've always wondered how the DNS infrastructure for (say a .com) TLD is designed. It must not only be able to maintain a high level of reliably, but also support high amounts of real-time updates to the records. I would assume that ISC's BIND is…
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How should I proceed with establishing a Remote Infrastructure management system for my [small] company?

My company is having a small IT infrastructure. Details are: 125 computers One mail server One NAS and One database server We want to establish a remote infrastructure management system, where in our team located in another city can manage the…
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Load balancer or proxy to route traffic to different servers based on their URL

I have many customers with their own nameservers, I want to give them all the same DNS details like how Squarespace or Shopify do (eg an @ A record and a www. CNAME that is always the same), and then manage which server their traffic is routed to on…
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What are some behaviors/patterns that indicate that a host is degrading?

Student here, I'm wondering how we know that hosts are degrading (specifically EC2 instances)? What are some typical behaviors that could indicate the degradation? I looked through the site and googled, and the best answer that I found is Why do AWS…
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Unsure how to proceed from DigitalOcean droplets and CircleCI deployments to just automating the whole setup

I work within a small dev team and our current infrastructure is setup with GitHub for code, CircleCI to deploy these to our DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets whenever something is merged into the develop branch (goes to Develop server) and master branch…
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Plesk directory structure problems

I have an entire website with the following directory structure: /example.com /html (public) /css /js index.php /lib session.php other_lib_files.php /views index.php /models …
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What Can ELB Do That ALB Cannot?

In AWS, is there anything ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) can do that ALB (Application Load Balancer) cannot? And if the answer is nothing, then is there any incentive to choose ELB over ALB?
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Architecting for microservices application

I am not sure whether this is a right forum to ask question with respect to the infrastructure architecture. But posting the question hoping so: One of my customer has a web application which is developed in the latest technology of micro services.…
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Enforcing monitoring on AWS resources

We have a couple huge AWS accounts and I've been tasked with implementing guidelines for monitoring resources and ensuring that monitoring is set up for all existing and future resources. Is there any way to prevent resource creation/modification by…
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How to stop GCP vm instances using terraform

How to stop GCP vm instances using terraform? I have tried changing status of the vm instance, it's available for AWS but couldn't find the way to do it for GCP.
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Use an output from a previous deployment in Google Cloud Deployment Manager

I'm fairly new to GDM but I've a few years of CloudFormation under my belt. I'm trying to split the deployment of my resources into multiple deployments. I'm now running into an issue where I need to reference the outputs from a deployment which is…
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Get "gs_secret_key" and "gs_access_key" values for Google Bucket

I need to create a directory in a Google Cloud Bucket using Ansible. I would like to know where I can find the values to complete "gs_secret_key" and "gs_access_key" to use "gc_storage" module in Ansible. - name: Create a bucket with key as…
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