Tag: server
Backups, Automated and Off Site
One of the biggest issues in running a server is making sure if everything disappears you can be up and running as quickly as possible. So how do I do it?
Mark Story – My thoughts on the built-in php server
I think he reached into my brain and said exactly what I was thinking.
O’Reilly Broadcast – The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment
The article even goes through the process of what it would take to permit you to have stayed up through Amazon’s recent downtime.
Facebook Engineering Blog – Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
The point is to demonstrate Facebook is working at a high scale much like Google and they aren’t opening up anything that actually makes them their real money.
Brent Ozar – RAID 0 SATA with 2 Drives: It’s Web Scale!
Good discussion on scaling you database servers.