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Hi, We're looking for a highly scalable way of scanning documents being uploaded and downloaded from our web application. I believe services like gmail and hotmail are using bespoke solutions from companies like Trend, but are there some quality "off the shelf" products out there that
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This website has been a great resource for helping me to understand the successful (and failed) scalable network designs from organizations that have actually done it, but I haven't seen any explicite explanations about secure remote administration of these systems. I understand that the *nix people love to
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Hi, I was wondering if I could borrow the collective minds of you all to draw up a list to the CDN's that you'd use/do use in the UK. If they're outside the UK but have decent support then also include. The service
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Hi, First of all I want to to say that this is an extremely interesting and informative website. i have enjoyed reading the various posts on how the big sites scale to meet the needs of their customers. The service we are developing is a webcam service. The client application
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What have bunch of applications which run on Debian servers, which processes huge amount of data stored in a shared NFS drive. we have 3 applications working as a pipeline, which process data stored in the NFS drive. The first application processes the data and store the output in some
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I've been trying to find a high availability file storage solution without success. I tried GlusterFS which looks very promising but experienced problems with stability and don't want something I can't easily control and rely on. Other solutions are too complicated or have a
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Hello everybody! I am a developer of a website with a lot of traffic. Right now we are managing the whole website using perl + postgresql + fastcgi + memcached + mogileFS + lighttpd + roundrobin DNS distributed over 5 servers and I must say it works like a charm, load is stable and everything works
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Hi, I am an owner of an large community website and currently we are having problems with our database architecture. We are using 2 database servers and spread tables across them to divide read/writes. We have about 90% reads and 10% writes. We use Memcached on all our webservers
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes anyway. We are looking to hire an outside firm to help with development of a scalable and potentially high-traffic web site. We are not looking for an individual but rather a firm with enough well rounded
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Hi, I am building a video-sharing site and I'm looking for an efficient way to update video views count. The easiest way would be to perform an SQL update to increase the "views" counter every time a video is viewed, but naturally I want to avoid
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For some special reason, I'm trying to make a web server able to get all the DNS names mapped to its IP. Let me explain more, I'm creating a website that will run in a web farm, every web server in the farm will have some
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Hi. I'm looking for a way to share files between EC2 nodes. Currently we are using glusterfs to do this. It has been reliable recently, but in the past it has crashed under high load and we've had trouble starting it up again. We've