On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> So what is a reasonable level of availability, without going to Local
> Director-based load balancing or something overboard like that? This
> isn't for a bank or the military--so I need to be reasonable about it.
Running NT? Based on experience of this type of database intensive app,
you'll be lucky to get 95%. Very lucky.
This includes hardware upgrades when your database exceeds available
memory, shutdowns and reboots when memory leaks crap your server out, blue
screens and other sundry NT mysteries.
> My reason for this is because I just get dumbfounded when these souped up,
> enormously fault-tolerant, super-fast, super overpowered web servers fall
> over with fscking crap software failures. We won't talk about the file,
> print, proxy or directory servers... I'll start foaming at the mouth :)
Just admit it. NT sucks. :-)
DaZZa
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