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Windows Server 2008 Web vs Standard

Please tell me what choice will be best between Windows Server 2008 R2 Web edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition for NoSQLDatabase/BackendComputing scaling farm? I am pretty sure that there are can be 30-100 servers in net. What…
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Does it make sense to add more cluster nodes to an underutilized server?

Let's say I'm running a cluster with two Weblogic server nodes on two servers (Solaris, 4 CPUs, 64 GB RAM each). The heap size is maxed out on these nodes and so each server runs with 40+ GB of free memory most of the time and each server usually…
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Does multipurpose node is a good thing for scaling?

I have a web app with different tiers: database for persistence a couple of web servers(mongrels) load balancer Now it is all running on the same host. But how can I add another server to handle higher load? Should I separate roles (db & web)…
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Where to go for a TCP software load balancer with automatic scaling?

We have an interactive flash application running on AWS EC2 instances. One instance can handle between 100 and 200 users. We expect times with heavy growth and slashdot effects. To be prepared and not over-prepared we want a load balancing solution…
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Ideas for scaling out database architecture

We're looking to scale out our existing database architecture and need some advice on which way to go. We currently have 2 web servers behind a load balancer that both read & write to a single master database which replicates to a slave. Ideally,…
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Does reverse proxying the WebSockets servers make sense from scaling perspective?

I have reverse proxy and multiple WebSocket servers behind it. I'm confused whether it makes any sense from scaling perspective, because I see it like that: The WebSocket server A has 30_000 active connections The WebSocket server B has 20_000…
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How to scale out WSGI servers

If I had a web application with a Flask/Django backend, I could use a single host to run both the WSGI server and the nginx web server/reverse proxy. Nginx would handle incoming requests, serving static files, caching, SSL termination, etc. It would…
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How to handle scaling upto 3k concurrent connections

So here's our use case: We have firmware that connects to server (simple php file - that takes post request) and add the data (350-500 bytes per request) to database. Now here's a issue we have 3k units in the market and non-technical manager wants…
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Firebird horizontally scaling using containers

I am trying to setup a firebird server within K8s and using docker containers. This has worked well with using Azure Files as a persistent volume storage, however when I try scaling past 1, there are some odd behaviours that occur. I do not know…
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Kubernetes scales on same node

I installed traefik via Helm. Then I scaled it with kubectl scale --replicas=2 deployment traefik -n traefik Now I have two pods running on the same node, despite there is a second node that is up and running with no problems. How can I tell it to…
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Justifying Horizontal Scaling

When is horizontal scaling likely to solve your scaling problems? Let's say you have single api node (no DB) and a desired goal of 10k RPS over 5 minutes where the p95 is < x ms. Requests are coming in and you start to see that p95 go above your x…
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How to minimize ecs autoscaling reaction time from terraform?

When you create an ECS autoscaling policy, two alarms tag along with it: one for scaling up ("out"), one for scaling down ("in"). The scale-out ones I see created appear to sample CPU utilization (or the metric of interest) every minute, and only…
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Detect when scaling Azure SQL database via async TSQL command has failed

I have a scheduled task which runs each night to copy an existing production Azure SQL db to a dev environment. Once copied, I scale the database down (actually I put it into an elastic pool to share the cost amongst multiple other dbs) to reduce…
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any case studies on how rapidshare etc. serve that much content/bandwidth?

Would be interesting to read how these giant file serving type sites like rapidshare, yfrog, etc., serve up all that data. Has anyone read anything about them before?
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User account affects screen scaling

I have an Azure VM with a couple of local accounts. If I use MSTSC to connect and login with account1 then all is good. If I login with account2 then the scaling is messed up and text is so small it's impossible to read. Any ideas why?
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