A socket is an abstract network construct with a sending and receiving side. In most modern operating systems (OS) there are device representations, and programming tools to address sockets.
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Server offer with "2-sockets and 1 virtual guest", what does this mean?
I've read in a server support website that they offer a "2-sockets with 1 virtual guest" packet for a Linux Server.. but what does the "2-sockets" part mean? I know servers may be virtualized but I'm uncertain about the whole phrase
Can someone…

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Mysql Sock Problem
I'm having problem with this error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
It appears every few minutes but after few seconds everything is ok...
Have you guys any solution for that?

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Help: Enable Ports
I'm trying to enable a few ports, as I have a php script that uses sockets.
I added the following to my httpd.conf file:
Listen 6112
Listen 6113
However, when I execute my php script, it says the ports are already in use. How can I go by using…

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How to create log-server without affecting web-server?
I am thinking of making a log server to track all requests that come to my website in someway different from apache logs and thus be able to create custom reporting system.
What is the best way to send such logging record from my web-server to the…

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How to prevent WSEACCESS error on Send via raw socket on Windows XP SP3 for normal user accounts
I have recently begun trying to run our company apps under normal windows user accounts rather than under an account with Administrators group membership. Several of these are failing when atempting to send data on a raw socket (specifically this…

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MySQL Server Connection Socket Error
i just compiled MySQL 5.1 on SunOS 5.11 (i think xD) and now i have some problems. I am able to start the server via
./bin/mysqld_safe &
and i can run the mysql* tool in /bin via Putty, however i am not able to connect to the server via PHP.…
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Xeon sockets and interoperability (upgrading)
So it looks like for the most part Xeon motheboard sockets are fairly standardized. If I order a new server with a Xeon proc would I be able to expect to upgrade to any processor in the Xeon family or are there exceptions to this? Do I need to stay…

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Windows Server 2003 Is there a limit on number of TCP connections per process?
We are running into issues with BizTalk host instance intermittently going down. One of the things that we are worried about is the number of FTP connections a single host instance is making which could easily reach into the hundreds perhaps…

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Are there any ready to use open source websocket server implementation?
Are there some open source websocket server implementations, especially ready for production? (Are there Erlang based out there?)

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Windows Server 2008 network limitations?
Please tell me:
Are there some limitations on connection/socket/http in Windows Server 2008 R2 editions family? For example i am pretty sure that some of servers will have 100+ connections (by sockets and http requests) at the same time…

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WebSockets setup questions
I'm running a Windows 2008 server, and I need some help setting up whatever I need to set up on the server side.
I've been googling like mad, but with my luck, I just cant find a windows compatible server solution for setting up a WebSocket server…

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Zebra Printer - Socket Error 10054
While sending a large file to a Zebra Printer on the network (connected over wireless), the PHP script is throwing an error saying:
PHP Notice: fwrite(): send of 5932 bytes failed with errno=10054 An existing connection was forcibly closed by the…

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mysql error 2002 "cannot connect to socket"
I am having trouble with the server I'm running my trac on. I accidentally had the nightly back up going to the internal hard drive instead of the external. So it filled up, I erased the new files, deleted everything, and rebooted. I'm still getting…

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"Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket" and deleted socket
It's a common error, but all the answers don't solve my problem :
When I start mysql, I have :
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
So after reading some answers, I change it in…

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Bandwidth Monitor
I am creating a bandwidth quota program in PHP, however I am finding that to create it with PHP is a bit hard. As an example of what I am trying to do, the user can download 10GB per day, and after they have reached the bandwidth cap the user should…

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