Hardware failures are not likely. Hardware does not fail that often. The components that do like hard drives, fans, power supplies are redundant and can be hot swapped in even the cheapest server class machines.
The only reason BGG continues to thrive is there is no other option. This amount of downtime would be embarrassing to any database administrator in most cases and people would be fired where I work the second time something like this happened. On Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:12:00 PM UTC-5, ThatSteveGuy wrote: > > Don't you think the failover issue is more likely to be one of hardware? > I don't think the geek is sitting on extra servers to run a failover > database. > > From what I know of Aldie, if he could make this site available with no > downtime he would. I'm sure no one who invests as much time in a website > as he does enjoys having a bunch of armchair quarterbacks jump on this > message board every time there's an issue to explain just how easily it > could be fixed if they were in charge. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/nvRCDp7-DdMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
