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Hi, We're running a enterprise SaaS solution that currently holds about 700 customers with up to 50.000 users per customer (growing quickly). Our customers have SLA agreements with us that contains guaranteed uptimes, response times and other performance counters. With an increasing number of customers and traffic
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If using a DB to store session(used by some app server, ex.. websphere), how would an enterprise class site that is housed in 2 different data centers(that are live/live) maintain the session between both data centers. The problem as I see it is that since each data
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All, My site would have heavy content (video/pictures). I'm looking for an efficient IPS/IDS solution which would not introduce much of latency. I'm more familiar with Cisco ASA and also familiar with Juniper, Foundry and others. I also came across snort but haven'
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An Amazon EC2 Flash Video Streaming solution has been announced by Wowza Media. What do you think about the future of similar solutions? Is Amazon EC2 and S3 ready for video streaming? I have found threads on their forums related to the performance, scalability and high availability of the hosted
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We have a database today that holds all of our shared inventory. How do we scale out ? We run into concurrency issues today as mutliple users may want to access the same inventory,etc. Im sure its a common problem.. So how do folks implement this while also having faster
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Let me begin by saying that I have used and continue to use various ORM frameworks such as hibernate, ibatis, propel and activerecord in applications and websites that have a user base ranging from a couple hundred to 500k users. Especially for projects that have to be up and running
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Hi, I am using drupal for my clients website, and was thinking is it possible to host all ( about 500) of them on the same server(maybe VPS or dedicated). Here is the situation..... Each clients website has a database with about 50 tables each, all the databases are small
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I am planning the scaling of a hosted service, similar to typepad etc. and would appreciate feedback on my plan so far. Looking into scaling storage, I have come accross MogileFS and OpenAFS. My concern with these is I am not at all experienced with them and as the sole
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OK, I know this site is for scalable web site design. But as there aren't any sites I can find for graceful failure under "slashdotted" like pressure I'll ask here. Does anyone have a sensible way, once you have a "web application"
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All, I'm looking for a faster/reliable solution for DR/BC as well as for sclability for my web/db servers. I came across VMWare Infrastructure and other products. The I/O performance concerns me to go with virtual servers. I'm also looking into imaging software
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I remain neutral, but time and again, when people talk Windows or SQL Server, they seem to consider them unreliable with limits around scalability, performance and availability. And then you start looking at some of the big boys you have listed here in the architectural section and most of them
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Where do you draw the line between scalability vs Performance vs High Availability vs Reliability? I guess at the end of the day, we all want to be highly available, great performance and always reliable. So is it safe to say that scalability is the answer ? Also when do you