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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.
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