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Cheap scaling techniques using open-source software

What are your favourite techniques to improve scalability of highly websites? I have compiled the following list for techniques I've used using open-source tools: 1.) Caching full-page reverse-proxy to avoid hitting appserver: Varnish 2.)…
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How to make a vm scale when demand for resource increases

i am having a server with 16 virtual core and 24G RAM,using Xen virtualization and ubuntu as dom0 Created 4 VMs (in para mode),each with different applications. CPU Load vary on each vm,somtimes first vm reaches nearly 100% CPU and others under 25%…
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Localized database for customers

The company I work for, has just moved to AWS - and currently they have one very large central database with the instance currently located in America. However, one of their clients has requested that all of their data is held in the EU. So creating…
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Mongodb in a single server then scaling

If I start with Mongodb on a single server, but foresee that I need to scale out, should I configure it in any specific way? I guess I am looking for tips from people who have gone down this route.
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Scaling Amazon EC2 instanced when traffic to my app rises

I need your help about scalability on Amazon EC2 instanced. I have developed a web application using asp.net. I have decided that for start, I want to deploy it on a Medium High-CPU Windows Server 2008 instance. I have problem understanding what is…
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How many users can Apache Handle?

I have a static site and an 8GB RAM Server. The site would have just some javascript and static content. I need to handle about 20,000 concurrent visitors. Will my 8GB Server able to handle this ? Can anybody explain how to configure Apache…
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Scaling MySQL Database

What are the methods or tools used to scale mysql database. We have mysql database that is increasing in size daily. We just allotted a fix hard drive size on it so my concern is that we will need to relocate or increase the HDD size sometime when…
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How to allow users to monitor performance of a set of servers without touching every server?

I'm not a sysadmin, so this may be trivial. We have about 20 Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs we want to monitor centrally using Perfmon. The only issue is that the user account that's going to be doing the monitoring is not (and I assume will never be)…
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Scaling a LAMP website hosted on EC2

I'm very new to all this - I've recently managed to launch my website on EC2. As next step, I want to learn how to scale the website. I have a general idea but wanted some input from the experts about how to go about it. My website is based on LAMP…
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Roughly how much use could you expect to squeeze out of a ~$1000 MySQL server?

I know this is a horrible, generalized question with no good answer, and I apologize ahead of time, but I wonder if someone could take a stab at a very broad estimate. Let's say you have a dedicated MySQL server running on about $1K worth of modern…
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Scaling a GIF hosting site

My friend runs a popular Youtube-to-GIF conversion site. Right now, he has converted 250,000 Youtube videos to GIFs (each video gets 6 thumbnails for 1.5m total GIF files) and serves about 80TB of bandwidth per month. His server is IO blocking --…
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I need Microsoft SQL Clustering/Replication/Scaling Best Practice Resources

I'm trying to plan for our future scalability of our Microsoft SQL 2000/2005/2008 infrastructure. I'm having a hard time finding good information on how to best engineer such services, how to best keep these services available, and how to scale them…
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ActiveMQ Artemis: Cannot join more than two brokers with JGroups and KUBE_PING

While testing Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.13.0 with JGroups and the KUBE_PING plugin on Kubernetes I have noticed that no more than two brokers form a cluster. Any other brokers are simply ignored, whether they are started at the same time or…
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Experimental setup of PostgresXL on Kubernetes with Local volumes

I'm making a Gedankenexperiment about deploying PostgresXL on Kubernetes (k8s) where each datanode uses local (Directly Attached) storage. Imagine we have the following nodes: 2x highend machines with blazingly fast Optane DC SSD and NVDIMM. These…
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Nginx with docker load balancing app server (php)

I haven't found an solution so far, so I'm asking here: This is the situation I'm locking an solution for: We are planing an architecture that contains the following components Docker Container (auto load balancing as load requires it) Application…
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