Yeah I was kind of leaning toward the redundant hardware approach too and even keeping some disk shelf spares etc. it isn't e-commerce but just a request from the prez to have this up 99.999% of the time for potential students filling out online inquiry forms, applications etc.
Happy Fri to you too.....BC ________________________________ From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web Server Spec Question... How active is the web site? E-commerce or some other high demand 24/7 app involved? Either way, I'd be inclined to do the redundant hardware approach you mentioned, with redundant power sources, teamed NICS across multiple switches, etc. IMO, the hassle of clusters is not worth the potential teeny tiny uptime gain. However, I'd like to here from Fred Sawyer at Sunbelt on how this is handled for the update server(s). Happy Friday everyone! Shook ________________________________ From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Server Spec Question... We currently have our web site hosted off site on a partner's network. We are now brining it to our site for hosting. We have to buy a web server etc. it is going to run under IIS and needs 99.999% uptime. Would you cluster the server, just rely on redundant power, raid on the hds etc, or ???. Alos is it best to have the content be on a Raid 1 disk set? Just looking for some opinions etc. Thanks..Bob ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
