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Although I have a basic working knowledge of memory, SSDs and the like, I am not technical...I have never developed or deployed a system. I was exposed to ram-disks years ago, when their expense limited their use to very small files or DB applications. I am looking to "
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Hi there, what do you think is crucial in the code designing of a scalable site? How does one prepare for webfarms and clusters (e.g. in PHP)? Thanks, Stephan
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Anyone knows what's behind this service? http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/ thanks!
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Hi, I'm interested in peoples thoughts on the best choice for a database clustering solution. I have a database that is mostly varchars and numbers that doesn't store any binary data at all. It's used at about 70% read and 30% writes - though
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From a reader: eBay uses Java, but in a very pragmatic way. They use servlets, an application server, the JDK, and they do the rest themselves. They skip JSP, entity beans, and JMS. When you need to scale putting all your eggs in one basket is a risky strategy. Why
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Hi, I am interested in some experienced advice for choosing switches for a colocated 2-tier architecture. I have the hardware chosen for the webservers, app servers, and db servers, but need some advice on the network switch in between: colocation port -> firewall(load balancer) -> 2+ web
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I was looking at the pingdom infrastructure matrix (http://royal.pingdom.com/royalfiles/0702_infrastructure_matrix.pdf) and I saw that no sites are using Postgresql, and then I searched through highscalability.com and saw very few mentions of postgresql. Are there any examples of high-traffic sites that use postgresql?
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Hi, Some of the articles of the site claims profiling is essential. Is there any established approach to profiling WEB apps? Or it too much depends on technologies used?
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The questions was extracted from: /plentyoffish-architecture#comment-126 For startup like Markus, what is the best hosting option (and grow more later)? host your own server or use ISP co-location option? He still has to pay huge money on the bandwidth with that payload, right?
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We're implementing a website which should be oriented to content and with massive access by public and we would need a search engine to index and execute queries on the indexes of contents (stored in a database, most likely MySQL InnoDB or Oracle). The solution we found is
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Hey, I do have a website that I would like to scale. Right now we have 10 servers but this does not scale well. I know how to deal with my apache web servers but have problems with sql servers. I would like to use the "scale out"
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Is there any alternative to LIKE '%...%' OR LIKE '%...%' in MySQL if you have to offer partial string matching on a large dataset?