Denny Valliant wrote: > > All of the suggestions are aimed more at folks who's servers change > quite a bit more regularly than yours, but are good practice none the less, > even if one server is all you have to worry about, for the next 10 years.
No, they are aimed at people that want to throw a server in a rack and don't look at it for the next 5 years. Because when in 4 years time a disk fails, you have to be sure you will be alerted to that before the second one fails, but without logging in every day. When in 4 years your server is fried, you have to be sure that the documented approach for restoring the backup really works. The first time I ever was so rigorous in setting up a CF server was in the summer of 2001. It was an NT4 server that went live 2 weeks before Code Red. The first time I had to log in on that machine to fix something (install a patch) was 7 months later. All through Code Red, all through Nimda, all through all the nasties afterwards, I never had anything to do with that server. And it wasn't even behind a firewall. Carefull initial setup is an investment. Not for people whose servers change every month, but for people that don't want to be bothered by their servers every month in the next 5 years. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244046 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
