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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span><![endif]>What would be recommended server hardware (memory, disk, CPU, …) and software (Linux distribution, kernel version, …)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">Anything standard and new will do the trick here.  You don’t need “Pie in the sky”, just make sure you have
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span><![endif]>How could I synchronize both servers’ users?  I mean, in the beginning, I’d have two separate /etc/shadow files but this is not scalable.  I need to share a single file between both servers.  Is it possible?  How?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">Do you have a SAN that you could utilize?  For performance, I’d suggest a MySQL Cluster running on something with quite a few spindles.  The SAN provides great performance in that arena. 
 Otherwise, you are looking at having to do a Master/Slave scenario for MySQL DB Replication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span><![endif]>Any recommendations to the backup policy?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">Just your standard nightly full backups to disk, then to either tape, SAN or offsite storage of some kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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