Re: Server Reliability
  By: TOM WALKER to ALL on Thu Dec 16 2010 05:28 pm

 > The servers go down when we take them down - either for maintenance, or a
 > kernel upgrade. Most of them have currently have an uptime between 1500 and
 > 1600 days. 

IMO, it's better to have a regularly scheduled maintenance window so you can
take the system down cleanly without impact to your users, do hardware PM
(...your kernel can stay up for 3 years, can your fans stay dust free? Memory
and cables remain firmly seated?) and test your failover systems.

-kW

(none of this applies to my BBS, of course...)
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