I've been thinking cost analysis hasn't been on the high list when talking about RAID. Not all firms can/will enjoy the bestest/strongest/fastest/mostest.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got the explanation for why Leo Laporte's web site was down. Too bad > > his outsourced people aren't up to speed on the perils of RAID. > > > > The Website Is Down Submitted by Leo Laporte on Sun, 2008-09-21 14:41. > > > > On Friday evening we had a catastrophic failure of the web server that > > hosts TWiT Live, the TWiT Army Canteen, Leoville.com, and this site. The > RAID > > 5 controller died, and when it did it marked all the disks unusable. > > Support personnel at Softlayer, our hosting company, weren't able to > recover > > the disks, so they did the only thing they could do: replaced the > > controller and reinstalled the operating system. We're in the process of > restoring all > > the sites. > > Was Leo paying for high availability or did he go with the budget plan? > Server replication isn't free. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
