msherry

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   by msherry 14y ago

   Due to the fact that we process credit card payments and thus fall under PCI scope, we have to adhere to the PCI DSS (data security standard). There's a "quick" summary of it here https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_ssc_quic
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   by msherry 14y ago

   Nginx is primary for SSL termination and static assets. At the time we set up our infrastructure, I don't believe HAProxy supported SSL termination. According to Willy Tarreau's comment to the first answer of this question ( http://serverfa
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   by msherry 14y ago

   Absolutely. Being a payments-processing company, we have a variety of users (marketplaces), each of whom has users who are widely geographically distributed, so our usage doesn't drop off as much as some other types of sites might on weeken
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   by msherry 14y ago

   Then some of our clients would have been disappointed by the timeout errors they had started seeing, if they happened to make a request at the very start of the migration ;) We ran our migrations multiple times on test instances of our data
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   by msherry 14y ago

   Hi there. I'm the author of this post. If I'm reading this correctly, your suggestion would alter a single table online, and at the end, I would end up with a table with a new schema (assuming I had no foreign keys referencing the table bei