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What would be the best method to provide my server environment as a software package to be installed on a different server?

I have some software running on my AWS cloud and I would like to be able to offer this software package as an on-premise solution so that anyone can configure it on their own servers. What would be the best way to make this process as painless as…
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How to upgrade a single instance's size without downtime

I'm afraid there may not be a way to do this since we're not load balancing, but I'd like to know if there is any way to upgrade an EC2 EBS backed instance to a larger size without downtime. First of all, we have everything on one instance: both our…
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Deploy Apple OSX images from a Windows Server?

We are mostly a Windows shop but more and more Macs are being used. Is there any software that would run on Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to image Apple computers?
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/etc/*release files examples

Where can I find a list of different /etc/*release files of various Linux/Unix/MacOS distributions and versions? Same goes to uname -a command outputs.
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RHEL optimization for write-intensive disk operations

What configuration optimizations e.g. disk scheduling algorithms are suggested for a very write intensive setup ?
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Upgrading Debian from 4.0, but apt mirrors give 404

I have an old Buffalo HS-DH500GL NAS. I bought it years ago (2007 I think) when I heard it could be upgraded to run Debian 4.0. I followed some random tutorial (long forgotten where I found it) to install Debian, and the box has been running fine…
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how to resize partition on server 2003

Yesterday, my system partition ran out of space (my OS is Windows Server 2003), and I need to resize it, how could I do this? Buy a new larger disk to replace it? I have searched GOOGLE, and found references to various partition resizing…
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Recommended MySQL monitoring tool

I am looking for a good all-in-one monitoring tool for a single MySQL server and underlying Linux OS. I need something that gives me a quick graphical view of what is going on right now and that alerts me to issues / potential issues. If it can…
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which free linux distribution is supported on IBM X3200 M3

can anyone let me know which free linux distribution is supported on IBM X3200 M3 server? UPDATE: The issue was with mounting 2 hard disks. So I removed one hard disk and installed Cent OS 5.6 which works fine now.
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Network OS install server

I am looking setup a server that will allow us to install OS's (such as windows xp) over a network boot. Is there any solutions out there that will allow such a thing? Edit: Also i wanted to point out that im looking to do install from scratch, not…
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Broken folder behavior in OS X 10.6.7 Finder

We're running into a problem with certain files and folders on our Windows 2003 R2 file share. The problem only affects OS X 10.6 clients. Certain files and folders on the share seem to lose their filetype association. For 10.6 clients, the file or…
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Has anyone managed to install fresh OS from flash drive?

I am considering to avoid purchase new machines with optical drives. The only caveat is the OS installation which can be messy - to open the case and temporarily hook up DVD which often does not worth the trouble comparing to the price of a…
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GlassFish on Windows vs RedHat

I have a basic three tier web application, and I want to use GlassFish. Assuming same admin skills, any difference in having the host OS be Windows 2003 Server or RedhHat?
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How to create new instance from a snapshot and a new OS version

I have a NodeJS instance on Amazon LightSail. I want to upgrade the underlying Operating System to a newer major version, say Ubuntu 18 LTS to Ubuntu 20 LTS. When I create a new instance from the snapshot, I do not get the option of choosing the…
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What's the difference between Red Hat and CentOS?

I cannot find a clear answer to that question. All the answers lead to this: Red Hat providers technical support for their distro while CentOS does not. Also, CentOS lags behind with the updates. Are these the only differences? Is there any…
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