Apologies for the rather open nature of the question, but I think its a very valuable area of discussion. Following the recent AWS outage and the huge number of horror stories that followed it, I ...

I am running a heavy traffic site and our server is beginning to get to its limits, at the moment the entire LAMP stack is on one box (not ideal). I would like to move the database onto it's own b...

In a blog application developed using domain driven design a 'Post' entity has a related collection of tag entities. On creating the post (e.g populating the object from the UI) i would like to c...

I have recently found myself in the position of explaining an (In-House) application I have written to two candidates my company likes to hire in order to assist in maintenance and adding min...

Let's say you work for a huge company which suddenly decides to do custom in-house software development. Additionally, they want to be able to offer successful developments to their customers...

I want to plan a schedule maintenance down time on one of my production asp.net website hosted on IIS windows server 2003. I think this is the preferred behavior: All request to http://www.x.com...

Here is our current infrastructure: 2 web servers behind a shared load balancer dns is pointing to the load balancer web app is done in asp.net, with wcf services My question is how to set up t...

UPDATE 2009-05-21 I've been testing the #2 method of using a single network share. It is resulting in some issues with Windows Server 2003 under load: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810886 end ...

To start out, I have looked at the following pages and don't quite have my answer: how-would-you-organize-a-subversion-repository-for-in-house-software-projects and how-do-you-organize-your-version...

We have an ASP.NET file delivery app (internal users upload, external users download) and I'm wondering what the best approach is for distributing files so we don't have a single point of failure b...