Comment by Mircea Chirea on RAID 10, how layout works?
@micmcg, RAID10 is a nested RAID level. @Bastien974, in RAID10 you first mirror disks (RAID 1), then stripe them (RAID 0).
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on How to stop Apache from crashing my entire server?
@CyberShadow, you could use MPM Apache and mod_fcgid + suPHP.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Economical way to get many harddrives into rack...
@Hubert, no you can't with that design, because you need to remove the PSU casing from the chassis to remove the PSUs. Backblaze pod is just a horrible design when the data has any value. In their...
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Is it safe to use consumer MLC SSDs in a server?
@peterchen, you can use either a couple of SSDs or fifty 15K spindles.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Key Things to look for in a Data Center
@AX1, 40A at 110V is 4400W; at 230V it's 9200W. Unless it's high-density (Twin/Twin^2/Blade) or HPC/GPU, that's PLENTY.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Should servers be turned off at night?
Most motherboards produced from 2008 (maybe earlier) to now use solid state capacitors, which have a MUCH MUCH higher lifetime than electrolytic stuff. Power supplies are now the only place where you...
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on How do you organise the cables in your racks?
Why not use STP cables? They're cheap, well not cheaper than UTP, but for CAT5 or CAT6 they're very cheap, so why not?
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on How do you do the offsite hard drive backups?
@cherouvim, the backup box is not connected to the outside world except as necessary to execute updates. Also firewall is set to not even reply to connect requests except for an obscure SSH port....
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give...
Any updates? It's been 3 days.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Is there a way to have a virtual machine only...
I think you should research on the basic workings of programs - namely parallelization. If it's hard for developers to do, it's impossible for programs to do automatically.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Java "Could not reserve enough space for object...
This line is your culprit: max memory size (kbytes, -m) 1048576. It is limiting the heap to 1GB maximum. I think the virtual memory one too.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Why is Enterprise Storage so expensive?
These days 2-4TB SAS/SATA 7.2K drives are used for mass storage, so some of this no longer applies universally.
View ArticleComment by Mircea Chirea on Application Settings outside of web.config
Those will be global across all sites in IIS. What I need is a way to store per-site settings without having them overwritten when redeploying.
View ArticleAnswer by Mircea Chirea for Web Host Recommendations
I have to recommend three particular web hosts:HostGator - a general purpose host, offers shared, ressler, VPS and dedicated hosting. They are the best of the best, no doubts about it. Customer support...
View ArticleWhy do hosts prefer Linux to Windows Server?
So far I see a HUGE majority of hosts provide only Linux shared hosting, providing Windows only to VPS (or even to only dedicated servers). Why is it so? While Windows is a lot more expensive than...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.04 LTS - good enough to jump on it?
I'm currently planning to get a VPS from VPS.net for a PHP project. I personally haven't used CentOS (which is recommended all the time) and this is not a good time for me to start learning it, so I...
View ArticleAnswer by Mircea Chirea for Co-location vs. cloud hosting
Cloud hosting is generally very flexible is numerous ways depending on the provider. If you need a bigger server, you would normally have to add the hardware yourself, or even switch to a different box...
View ArticleIs brand-name NAS overpriced?
NetGear's ReadyNAS 2100 has 4 disk slots and costs $2000 with no disks. That seems a bit too expensive for just 4 disk slots.Dell has good network storage solutions too. PowerVault NX3000 has 6 disk...
View ArticleAnswer by Mircea Chirea for Recommendations for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V...
VPS.net offers a trivially scalable VPS with Linux, Windows and FreeBSD support. You should give them a try, get two $1 one-day nodes and create a Windows VPS. They offer SSD nodes that replace your...
View ArticleApplication Settings outside of web.config
I need to keep the production app settings section outside of Web.config; I don't want keys and other secret information to be kept inside source code repository. However, if I edit the app settings...
View ArticleSSD as single drive in workstation pros and cons
What are the pros and cons of using an SSD as the only drive in a workstation instead of an array of several HDDs or a fast 10k/15k HDD?To be more specific, Intel X25-M 80GB with Windows 7 x86-64...
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