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When to move a virtualized server to physical?

Virtualization has some great benefits, but there are times when a virtualized server needs more performance and should be moved to physical. My question is, how do you tell when these times are? I'm looking for measurable data and metrics that show…
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Suggestions for Terminal Emulators on Linux, Windows and Mac

I've recently found the Terminator terminal emulator for Gnome. I really like this There is a Terminator written in Java. For windows it is lightyears ahead of the installed rxvt. However, I have found that it suffers the same limitations as…
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Any cross-platform two-panel file manager?

Using a two-panel file manager really helps for some file operations. Midnight Commander is available for any Linux distribution. There's Servant Salamander for Windows. I have also looked at Total Commander. Mucommander is pretty good, except…
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AuthUserFile path relative to virtual host root?

Given this folder / file structure: private/.htpasswd public/.htaccess ... where public is the root folder of a virtual host in Apache, and private is its sibling folder: How do I define a relative path for AuthUserFile in the .htaccess file, such…
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Best practices for re-IP'ing / migrating servers and applications

Some of this question would be highly application-specific, but what approaches do you take when looking to migrate applications from one server/platform to another and servers from one network segment to another? For applications that can't be…
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cross OS file system that works on Windows 10+, Linux, and OS X

First, I realize there are many duplicate questions but they are all quite old and their answers may not be relevant anymore. I would assume (or hope) that in our constantly evolving technology landscape there is now a better solution than using 3rd…
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Tradeoffs between cross-cloud and cross-AZ-single-cloud deployments

We have a educational system (federated microservices that are running mostly on AWS EC2, RDS MySQL and a message queue) that is already distributed across regions, primarily for latency hiding, though it has been useful for failovers. We're now…
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Running Linux Script from Windows in backgound

I'm using following script from my windows machine to run on linux and do backup. @ECHO off :: run remote command plink.exe username@myserver /home/username/do-backup.sh Problem with this script is that, i have to keep my session live. as backup…
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Compatibility of (legacy) Sun Hardware?

I have a couple (well a lot more than that..but for the sake of the brevity.) of sun enterprise 250 servers with solaris installed on them. I want to know if any version/flavor/distro of linux can be installed on…
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Is there any command line tool to help with usual tasks that is cross platform?

I had no idea how to name the thing I'm looking for but I will try to describe it. I'm looking for a tool that would allow you to do common tasks using the same command line on most platforms. It will do this by calling the platform specific…
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accessing a centos7 server from a centos6 machine

My Background: I have been tasked with upgrading our task management from Trac/BZR to Git/GitLab. I’m not familiar with servers, and although I’ve worked with Linux machines for several years I’ve never done anything as backend as this. Forgive me…
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Using MIT Kerberos as Account Realm for Windows AD

My situation is as follows: We have a large number of Linux users and thus our accounts are on a MIT Kerberos Server. We have a few Windows users whose accounts are in Windows AD. And we have a growing number of users who sometimes use both systems.…
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Checking out from VisualSVN with SVN+SSH:// from Linux

I've seen a few references to people accessing their VisualSVN server with the svn:// protocol despite visualSVN not technically supporting it (due to it still pulling from stock SVN for windows). I have an older Linux client fileserver that for…
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Stable portable wifi web server

This is a somewhat strange issue, but here it goes: A team (about 15 users) in our organization uses a self-contained Ruby-on-Rails web app to search and view data for competitions. There wouldn't be a problem except the competition rules prohibit…
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Cross machine full backup solutions

I have a fully configured VPS where every service relevant to my customers and to me is provided in abstraction from the underlay hardware; that is: the softwares for webserver, PHP, forums, and every other service provided by the VPS over the…
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