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What would be a quick fix in case of server downtime due to sudden high traffic?

Let's consider a scenario like below: A small web blog build based on LAMP stack and deployed on a shared hosting. Suddenly it becomes popular in one day and it gets million hits per day. Since the developer have not consider high traffic, it…
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How to Plan for scale on my rackspace cloud server

I currently have a couple of cloud servers on Rackspace For application NGINX+PHP+Memcached+APC 2GB instance For Mysql Database 1GB instance Our site at the moment is not very heavy in terms of traffic, we have about 100000 pageviews per month,…
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TCP Window Scaling. TCP scale factor not supported due to dynamic TCP Frame Size on windows 2008 server

PROBLEM Calling an asp webservice hosted by an ISP from our WCF service hosted on Windows 2008 Server is showing timeout/no response from webservice. DIAGNOSIS Using windows network monitor to packet capture and isolate packets sent a webservice…
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ftp.example.com pointing to many different servers

I wanted to setup something like this: ftp.example.com which points to different ftp servers. For example: 111.111.111.1 111.111.111.2 111.111.111.3 111.111.111.4 When someone connects to ftp.example.com, he would be randomly connected to…
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What is the middleware in a typical Debian LAMP stack?

I am researching on the topic of scaling, and I discovered something called the middleware which is basically handling the requests, correct? If that is true, what is the middleware in a LAMP stack? It's Apache right? How can I even check what is…
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Amazon AWS tutorial - Cannot redirect to service provided destination - try using AWS keys for authentication or check destination URL

I'm following the Amazon AWS tutorial and I have reached Step 6: Launch Amazon EC2 Instances Using Auto Scaling http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/ But when I run the launch command: as-create-launch-config MyLC…
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Scale out or scale up - Rackspace cloud servers

I have a small webserver running a couple of Django python apps, MySQL, and a wordpress multisite instance. It all runs on Apache with mpm worker, fastcgi and mod_wsgi + memcached The server is reaching is small memory limit of 256meg. I have the…
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AWS scaling within cluster, via scripts or some other way

It seems that a lot of people are using AWS nowadays, and I'm really hoping someone can give me a pointer on how, and if, I could design a scalable system within EC2. I tried searching, but all I can come up with is CloudBuzz, CloudCookie,…
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Scale a highly transactional SQL server

I’m looking to upgrade one of my site servers. The site currently executes around 20m sql queries a day and this is growing quite fast. Right now IO throughput is a real issue, so my idea is to move various databases onto their own disk pairs. My…
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Microsoft Exchange - does it have serious scaling limitations?

My corporate email has a quota of 500Mb, which I am constantly hitting. I recently requested to have this increased but it was refused citing the following two reasons: We have 400 users. If we increased everybody's quota to 1gb - it would: 1)…
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Gridstore and Servers

I am looking in to buying a 5 node gridstore system. http://gridstore.com/products.html This basic works it seems by using the processing power of all the machines on the network [ same subnet ] with the gridstore client installed. I have been told…
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Combining like programs on same server

I have several different applications I need to run to serve my website. To use the minimum amount of servers while still maintaining good performance, which of the following can I put on a single server? mysql, nginx (2), memcached, sphinx search,…
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What server hardware are people using for replicated mongodb servers?

Since mongodb, couchdb are for horizontal scaling and have inbuilt support for replication, what hardware is being used for them ? Specifically looking for hardware for replicable mongodb instances. Server models etc. would really help. Adding…
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live coverage setup .. need advice

i plan to live blog from a show and expect atleast 5-10K users on the live blog I have setup 2 servers live.domain.com with wordpress running apache and nginx proxy to serve images (1024MB RAM linode) livedata.domain.com with meteor server as…
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how do i enable Asynch Module/Http on IIS7

I am trying to enable WCF to scale out using Asycn pattern, it is a configuration setting, to enable asynch processing, but i can't find out where this is. I think it was in .net 3.5 SP1 feature, but there isn't much on it.
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