From: "Geo." 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> But the savings were said to accrue from a reduction in the number of
> servers required.  Fewer machines means fewer admins, of any ilk.

Depends. I cut the number of web servers we have by putting 5x the number
of sites on a server as the hardware became faster. It's not really any
less work. I still spend as much time tracking down problems although it
does take a little less time to apply patches, that was never a significant
portion of the time I spend admining.

the majority of admin time is taken up trying to figure out the problem on
the first server, once you know what caused a problem and how to fix it you
are past the expensive part.

Geo.

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