Greetings all, Thanks to Debian and this list, I have grown in the past four years from Linux hobbyist to smalltime sysadmin with a brokerage firm, to sysadmin at an ISP. One of the best things about my last job has been that the bosses placed their confidence in me and Debian. Backed by the quality of the software and the support of the lists I have been able to meet the challenges.
Now the company I work for has grown to be a voice and data services provider poised to compete at a national level. And decisions have to be made about the server OS and hardware platform that will meet the challenge. We currently run Debian on a bunch of servers, with services distributed randomly among machines. We are set up so that we can restore a service manually on another machine if the machine providing the service goes down, so availability isn't too bad. But we're now thinking about scalability. The bosses are happy to renew their confidence in me and Debian, but their question is "can Debian scale to meet the expansion, or should we make the decision to go to heavy metal UNIX?" And I have the same question. I naturally want to stick to Debian, which has rocked so far. But I don't think we can continue to run JBOS (Just A Bunch Of Servers) for much longer. We need to go to an available and scalable solution. I've been thinking of Single System Image Linux (SSI Linux) for some time. This will have the advantage of leveraging the currently available dozen or so servers, avoiding the purchase of heavy metal. It will also allow addition of resources as demand requires, rather than initial overprovisioning as is done with heavy metal. Has anyone on the list gone to production with Debian and SSI Linux? Does anyone on the list have any other suggestions re. Debian scalability and availability? -- Best regards, | George Karaolides OTEnet Telecommunications Ltd., | | System Administrator 2nd Floor, 20 Agias Paraskevis St., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Strovolos, Nicosia CY 2002, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republic of Cyprus. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
