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03-07-2008, 11:43 AM
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Linux still annihilates FreeBSD on 16-32 core...
Linux still annihilates FreeBSD on 16-32 core systems, largely because there's a lot more midrange hardware out there running it and it's proven stable in those situations (e.g. big Oracle boxen).
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03-07-2008, 11:36 AM
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Buy them directly from Microsoft?
Buy them directly from Microsoft?
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11-25-2006, 02:43 PM
Thread: The Official "What's Your Uptime?" Thread! in Dedicated Server
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Aye, the Solaris machines I was doing admin on a...
Aye, the Solaris machines I was doing admin on a few years back were averaging at around 500-600 days.
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11-25-2006, 02:38 PM
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I agree, it's really not so much about the...
I agree, it's really not so much about the hardware but rather how good you are at optimizing the server as an overall unit (e.g. all components, suitable fs, tuned apache/lighttpd, and the...
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07-01-2006, 11:32 AM
Thread: HellBound Hackers - WARNING! in Web Hosting
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RAH104, simply hosting a large number of...
RAH104, simply hosting a large number of websites, many of them handling things such as credit cards and storing personal information about their users will indirectly make you a target.
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07-04-2005, 04:03 PM
Thread: 64-bit Confusion in Hosting Security and Technology
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Hi, The 64-bit version of CentOS is very...
Hi,
The 64-bit version of CentOS is very reliable and used in a fair number of places, although I would recommend RHEL or SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) if you can afford it simply because you... -
04-19-2005, 08:15 AM
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Market for a large distributed hosting cp
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I just want to ask your opinion on whether there is a market within the web hosting industry for a large/scalable distributed hosting control panel. I've been thinking about developing a... -
04-19-2005, 07:50 AM
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From my experience the best way to combat this is...
From my experience the best way to combat this is a combination of cgiwrap and either the Openwall or GRSecurity patches (Linux only, there are similar ways you can restrict in NetBSD and FreeBSD).
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04-19-2005, 05:31 AM
Thread: Most stable / complete Linux distro ?? in Dedicated Server
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Well you can consider all the usual suspects for...
Well you can consider all the usual suspects for a stable linux distribution.
Open Source/Free: Debian, CentOS, Slackware
Commercial: RHEL, SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server).
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04-17-2005, 09:07 AM
Thread: JCR in MySQL in Programming Discussion
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It wouldn't be the job of MySQL to come up with a...
It wouldn't be the job of MySQL to come up with a JCR implementation, thats like saying that Oracle have to develop everybodys applications themselfs just because they make the database.
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04-15-2005, 10:44 AM
Thread: PHP Optimization - Zend VS/& PHPA in Programming Discussion
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Hi, The main reason you'd use Zend Performance...
Hi,
The main reason you'd use Zend Performance Suite, PHPA or Turk MMCache etc. is to eliminate the majority of the overhead involved in parsing, loading, checking and optimizing your PHP files.
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04-11-2005, 07:59 AM
Thread: people fall for pictures in Web Design and Content
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Poll: Personally I dislike it when people stick...
Personally I dislike it when people stick pictures of flashy looking servers on their webhosting businesses site. Some of the most common ones are Sun Fire 10k or 15k servers (they cost upwards of...
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04-10-2005, 04:12 PM
Thread: Getting Support Staff - How much to pay them... in Web Hosting
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Middle of bloody wales!
Middle of bloody wales!
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04-10-2005, 03:13 PM
Thread: Getting Support Staff - How much to pay them... in Web Hosting
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I am infact paid minimum wage by my employer,...
I am infact paid minimum wage by my employer, simply because there are no other tech jobs in the area. You'd be suprised what people can get away with, I should be earning £30-40k a year :(
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04-10-2005, 02:37 PM
Thread: Advance VB Perogrammer in Programming Discussion
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So you mean a registration system that can lock...
So you mean a registration system that can lock an application down to a single system? There are already several very similar products in the market.
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04-10-2005, 01:27 PM
Thread: Getting Support Staff - How much to pay them... in Web Hosting
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Work it out :) £1 = $1.88605 USD.
Work it out :)
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04-10-2005, 01:25 PM
Thread: Login C++ in Programming Discussion
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Personally I would recommend using an ATL ISAPI...
Personally I would recommend using an ATL ISAPI extension (Labeled ATL Server Project is VS).
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04-10-2005, 01:16 PM
Thread: Getting Support Staff - How much to pay them... in Web Hosting
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In the UK it's about £12,000 PA ($22,600 USD) for...
In the UK it's about £12,000 PA ($22,600 USD) for full-time which is little above the minium wage.
Considering a competant person can easily handle 6 or 7 technical support tickets per hour, you... -
04-10-2005, 12:33 PM
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Easy :) The majority of distributions come as...
Easy :) The majority of distributions come as standard with rather weak protection against things such as fork bombing.
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04-10-2005, 12:25 PM
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The problem with 'uptime monitoring' sites is...
The problem with 'uptime monitoring' sites is that most of them only ping you or try to connect to a port every 5 or 10 minutes.
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04-10-2005, 12:13 PM
Thread: good host for jsp ? =) in Web Hosting
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gracetin: Do you mean just JSP hosting (e.g....
gracetin:
Do you mean just JSP hosting (e.g. anybody with CPanel/Plesk that comes with tomcat bundled?)
Or do you mean actual J2EE hosting?
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04-10-2005, 11:53 AM
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Heh, I was on my way to getting a realistic...
Heh,
I was on my way to getting a realistic 99.99% uptime (under 1 hour per year downtime). That is fairly reasonable, and would give me time to reboot atleast 20 times through the year (Solaris 9... -
04-10-2005, 11:29 AM
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I think that rule is perfectly acceptable, and it...
I think that rule is perfectly acceptable, and it ensures that people just don't promise things they can't provide.
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04-10-2005, 09:11 AM
Thread: Login C++ in Programming Discussion
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Be a little more specific
You have to be a little more specific about which platform and RDBMS you plan to develop for.
Writing CGI applications is trivial (with enough experience) but there are many more options, which...
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