On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:34:26 +0800, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Joseph Temple wrote: > >> I would point out that clustering makes hardware more available, not more >> reliable. > >If the application stays up, ir's more reliable. > >> The things actually fail more often because there is more to >> fail, > ..... >We've discussed Google here before: would anyone notice if a few Google >servers went missing for a while? Seems to me, probably not, and >according to some in the discussion that is on low-cost hardware. You always have to take the application into account. A Google session can drop out with little effect. A money transfer of a million dollars is quite another story. john alvord
