Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> What should we, members of PLUG, system admins of our networks,
> linux users and enthusiasts, do in these times of political
> and economic crises? Here are some starting ideas. You are welcome
> to add to or modify them.
>
> 1. People rely on us to provide reliable and fast service. E-mail,
> SMS-to-email, and websites, are just some of the communications
> media that my own University uses to talk to its faculty, staff, and
> students. Let us make sure that our networks are in top form and our
> internet connection is always up to provide these services. We should
> say as the Post Office says, "No rain, typhoon, flood, brownout, etc.,
> will down our networks or stop us from doing our jobs."
this what you are trying for a 99.9999 percent uptime for reliability and
availability. redundancy comes into play but the most expensive thing to do. i say
most expensive thing to do because not only the equipments are redundant but the
location as well in case of fire, volcano eruptions, typhoon, whatever to paralyze
your operation your honor.
> 2. Let us keep our networks secure. The "enemy" can spam us, send us
> viruses, ping us to death, tap on our lines and promiscuously examine
> all our unencrypted IP packets, etc. Let us install anti-spam, anti-ping,
> tls-mail, ssl, ssh, firewall, etc., to increase our network security.
> Most of all, let us regularly examine our logs to check for intrusions.
alerts for intrusion (like automatic email, icq, page, text, whatever to alert you)
to ease your pain your honor.
> 3. If we are a popular site, like elagda.com, let us make sure that network
> response is quick enough so that people do not get bored waiting for
> their webpages to display. I do not know how to do this, but you
> smart people should find out ways to improve response time.
clusters of servers to distribute (locally or globally) and balance the load of
request to improve response time your honor.
fooler.
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