vanDSLuserfrom Vancouver 2010Premium
join:2004-07-28
White Rock, BC Reviews:
 ·Shaw
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Re: Eggs in one basket Well, considering the costs of a second location, it isn't cheap at all. When you are not making any money, it is pretty hard to justify spending another huge chunk of change for redundant servers.
That being said, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and add another site... downtime's expensive! |
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·Comcast
| said by vanDSLuser:Well, considering the costs of a second location, it isn't cheap at all. When you are not making any money, it is pretty hard to justify spending another huge chunk of change for redundant servers. That being said, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and add another site... downtime's expensive! 2 Words my friend. Global Clustering 
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
 ·Frontier FiOS
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said by vanDSLuser:Well, considering the costs of a second location, it isn't cheap at all. When you are not making any money, it is pretty hard to justify spending another huge chunk of change for redundant servers. That being said, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and add another site... downtime's expensive! I think it really depends on the application. If it's a simple site and there isn't a critical need to keep things in sync, a second location may just be 2x the cost but manageable if you need the uptime. Things get quite a bit more complicated when you need to start keeping things in sync, replication, etc. It can go from a 2x the cost to x^2 cost. If you need the reliability, then sometimes you have to bite the bullet. But if $COST_OF_HIGH_AVAILABITY > $COST_OF_DOWNTIME, then you don't do it.
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 53059959Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | reply to vanDSLuser
I thought I read somewhere that a drunk employee caused the power outage by ripping all the cords out, and that they were trying to cover that up by saying it was the power companies fault.
besides, don't these places have battery backup and diesel generators? |
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