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Is it viable to run very lightweight services straight off a Raspberry Pi 2?

If computers were much simpler, there would be less points of failure which in turn might improve stability and simplify maintenance. This got me thinking - for a smallish team of about 25 people, does anybody have experience with running certain…
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Are Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors Server-Grade?

Many web hosting companies are now offering Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors under "cheap dedicated hosting." But my laptop has an Intel core i3 processor, which makes it more likely a desktop processor than a server processor. When I spoke to one of…
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What "access rights" could be blocking access to a gitlab repository?

I'm trying to setup gitlab (6.5.1) on a fresh clean server. Everything appears to work, but git is unable to push to any project. Following the commands from the newly created project page and pushing to the remote via ssh gives: $ git push -u…
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RAID configuration on new server

I need help with the configuration of RAIDs on the ASUS RS720-E10-RS12 server. We have installed 2x 512GB NVME drives in the motherboard slots and 12x SATA SSDs in the Backplane slots. I can only create a RAID from the NVME disks, and the option for…
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Should I be concerned about our server setup?

I work for a company of about 50 people. Our two servers (identical) are custom built with these specs: Xeon E3-1270 V3 Intel Entry Server Board 32 GB DDR3 ECC 2x 256 GB SSD RAID1 (for System) 4x 1TB SSD RAID10 (for Hyper-V VMs) Windows Server 2012…
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How to setup Apache 2.2.3 to send "last modified" etc

and to tell browser to reload an object (and/or a page... everything on the site) only if is been modified since last visit time??? htaccess, httpd.conf... have you a ready directive right for my case? Thank You very much
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Amazon EC2 instance ssh problems

I`m new to EC2 and I'm having some problems setting up my first instance. I followed this guide: http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/01/26/starting-amazon-ec2-with-mac-os-x/ with the difference that I used ec2-run-instances --instance-type t1.micro…
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How are large websites served to millions of users? (e.g. Google)

I appreciate this question might be vague/too broad, but I'm looking for the basic principles/a summary. How does a site like Google, or Facebook, for example, deal with the billions of page views it receives? I'm aware of round-robin DNS, which, I…
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Problems installing OS on Dell PowerEdge R410

I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge R410 and no disks. I have downloaded the Dell Systems Build and Update Utility for the R410 and booted from the optical drive. In the management console you have the option to deploy and O/S which is what I have…
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phpmyadmin setup failing due to not prompting for root password

An error occurred while installing the database: │ │ ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using │ password: NO) . Why on earth is it not prompting me for the root password during the setup of phpmyadmin? This is just…
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Ram recommendations vs SQL DB size

we have a medium sized SQL db of around 40GB, and are about to move it to a new box with server 2008 r2 x64 an expensive contractor has just come in and said we need 72gb of ram so that the whole DB can live in RAM i guess.. , I find that ludicrous,…
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Permanent case for shipping 2U servers?

My organization ships servers (2U) to multiple sites (back and forth) and the original server boxing is becoming worn. Can someone please recommend a more permanent case? Thanks.
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run a script via cloud-init

I know cloud-init allows to run commands as part of the cloud-init yml runcmd: - [ pwd ] but I am looking for a way to execute a full shell script. Some people just pipe the output of a curl into a shell - but that feels like a very wonky…
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ESXi 6.5 host does not respond to direct web access after boot (HTML5 client not accessible)

I have a simple ESXi (all default) free install in a home lab network that only has the host, a switch (with builtin DHCP) and a laptop. The DHCP provides both the laptop and ESXi host with IP as follows: ESXi host (192.168.1.2) ------------->…
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Running a server OS from an USB stick in 2017

I want to install Fedora as server OS on a USB3 flash drive. I wonder if now in 2017 they would be reliable, durable, and fast enough for that purpose? I plan to have an additional large HDD for storage, but I would like to decouple the OS into…
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