Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Scaling noise | Date | 8 Sep 2003 20:05:14 GMT |
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In article <200309030710.h837AXnR000500@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
| Once the option of running a firewall, a hot spare firewall, a | customer webserver, a hot spare customer webserver, mail server, | backup mail server, and a few virtual machines for customers, all on a | 1U box, why are you going to want to pay for seven or more Us in a | datacentre, plus extra network hardware?
If you plan to run anything else on your firewall, and use the same machine as a hot spare for itself, I don't want you as my ISP. Reliability is expensive, and what you describe is known as a single point of failure. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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