> From: David Lang [mailto:[email protected]] > > the thing is, even if you need a box to be up all the time, your expensive > system is still going to go down sometimes. how will you deal with that? > > Can that method then be used slightly more frequently to allow you to use > the > cheaper systems?
Sometimes it's unavoidable that the services you provide don't have scalable redundant options available, and must be run on dedicated systems. For example, I've certainly supported systems where the cost of software tools greatly exceeded the cost of hardware, and the licensing is done on a per-server basis with licensing being tied to the specific server. And the cost of employee time to use those tools greatly exceeds everything else. Those situations absolutely justified the cost of higher quality hardware to minimize downtime. In those cases, all you can do is get the best possible warranties and run the best possible combination of backups and storage redundancy, to minimize downtime whenever it occurs. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
