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Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)
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> Don't get mad :) I was just giving my own experiences. If you have others,
> or have other major reasons for downtime to talk about, please do so.
Please don't take this personally. Every sys admin has a right to define
his/her own 'acceptable' downtime policy. Most people I know will settle for
95% uptime, and many corporates don't really need more than that for their
public web servers.
However, what I'm mad at is the ISPs inability to provide *me* with the
level of quality that I want and need.
> Achieving 99.99% also for the Internet connectivity is probably completely
> impossible (when you have one physical location)!
Nadav, I'm sorry to say, you are used to the Israeli standard of doing
things. Let me tell you a little story that happened to a friend of mine
(Gilad, sorry to steal your thunder); his company was hosting their servers
at a colocation provider in the west coast. Not a huge one, by the way. That
company sent my friend an e-mail one day that was something like:
"we are going to move our router two weeks from now at 14:00. This should
not create any problems, since we have an alternative route that will keep
your connection alive transparantely, but it means that for those 30 minutes
your connection will only be through the backup router only, and we will not
have redundancy. Please let us know if this time and date is inconvinient,
and we will reschedule". I can't begin to count how many times our ISP
changed network configurations by surprise which caused problems on the
network (only for a few minutes, true. But why should that happen at all?),
and these guys are "warning" him that for 30 minutes his network connection
will still work, but through one route only, and it will not be redundant.
Now that's what I call having a high standard.
- Aviram
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