I Basically do some sanity check beginning of month for all these 3 servers.
- App server 🖥️
- Web server 🌐
- Database server 🗄️
Note: Asked in an interview
Now would like to know how you categories you maintenance based upon these 3 servers. There is something I need to know, maintenance done in different manner for these 3. Like if your app machine runs a Java server the update process and maintenance is very easy. But in case of your db server requires some care.
Thanks in advance folks.🥰😇👍🏼
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Without specifics it's hard to say, but generic server maintenance that most systems need to do is:
That's a cool one actually. Thanks for the update @Brandin 👍🏻
It's an incomplete question. There's no real description of the overall architecture, the criticality of the data, what business hours the solution serves, whether it's hosted on physical, virtual or public cloud, etc.
Though, it's reasonably likely that the specific answer is less important than how you qualify the question (at least, if it's a good interview, question-qualification would be the more-important response).
Business hours is 24*7 , and hosted on some cloud provider like AWS. It's a Monolithic architecture. What's up now ?
If using a cloud provider, some of the traditional maintenance issues can be made to go away: