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How to utilize Varnish for A/B Testing and Feature Rollout?

Today we have our web layer exposed to the world. We would like to add Varnish in front of our web layer to accelerate the site and reduce calls to the backend. However, we have some concerns and i was wondering how most people approach them: A/B…
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VMware ESX Linux Guest Customization

I am interested in deploying several RHEL 4 Update 8 virtual machines for creation of a test environment. Here are the steps I am taking: In off hours, P2V/V2V the production machines and convert them to templates Deploy the virtual machines with…
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Is testing every Anti-Virus definition before deployment feasible?

With the recent problems that McAfee customers have had over the last week there has been lots of opinion that not only should the AV vendors have better testing but customers should test AV signatures before deploying. Is this feasible? If you are…
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Keeping emails in Web app test environment from getting out

We have a test environment which is pretty much a copy of the production environment for our Web applications. In the past email addresses of customer data were scrubbed to avoid emails from test systems getting out into the wild. But our testers…
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What tests do you perform before deploying gray market hardware?

We're a small shop from an IT standpoint and buy almost all of our server and network hardware from gray market supplies—typically via eBay. I'm interested in developing a more rigorous testing process prior to deploying this gray market hardware…
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How to set DSCP values for outgoing traffic from my linux server to check whether QOS is working correctly or not?

I have to validate whether my router's QOS policies are working correctly.I have come up with an approach to tag the packets with DSCP values using IPTABLES. Can anyone confirm whether my approach is correct?If not please provide your help to…
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Testing Daylight Savings Time Switch

We have a case where we need to test some scripting and application code related to daylight savings time. We wanted to simulate the daylight savings time switch by disabling the NTP service and changing the system time into the future. Obviously…
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Monitoring the performance of a system for testing purposes?

I have a system in which I test the releases of a software suit. This system includes multiple Red Hat 5 servers and Windows clients on a closed internal network. I need to monitor every aspect of the system for memory, network, and CPU usage. …
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How to change server time safely for testing purposes

We have a Debian server (in a VM) running a Java application on a Tomcat server, using a Postgres database. It's a testing environment, so we can do anything we want to it. Every once in a while, we would like to test some logic that is scheduled…
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Server upload bandwidth testing

I'm looking for a tool (not AB, or any stress-test) that can simply test my server's external (overseas) upload bandwidth. The machine's location is at Europe but i'd like to test my speed to America. I don't like to provide an url because of…
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Independently config test an .htaccess file

I know apachectl has the configtest option, but as far as I can tell it's only for checking the entire config chain for the system apache. I would like to have a tool that can test an individual .htaccess file for errors as part of a continuous…
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Need - fast exhaustive memory testing tool for Dell server

I've got a Dell 2950 running ESXi. I'm having weird issues in one of the VMs and I would like to do a memory test to eliminate (or identify) faulty RAM as the problem. What is the easiest/fastest tool for me to use to do an exhaustive test of the…
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Geographic testing for latency

Really struggling to find tools that report latency loading a website from multiple geo-graphic locations. Are there such tools? I have begun replicating infrastructure in other EC2 regions, but find it difficult to ascertain what performance…
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Smartphone emulation software

With the new Exchange boxes going in, I'd like to do some thorough testing on smartphone features, as well as being able to provide salesman-proof documentation (I'm a dreamer). We've got drastic smartphone-creep, and people have been allowed to…
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Best practices for managing a web-server

Hi I want to ask what are the best practices when installing new software on a web-server, I'm pretty much self-taught, I have on my home PC: Ubuntu 11.04 with LAMP installed, and a VPS that I manage myself that runs CentOS 5.6. I usually just test…
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