RE: Interesting Assertions on W2K Stability

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But why are they down?  Is their servers down?  Their ISP connections?
Hacked DNS?  Human error on updating the pages or configuration?  Just
because someone like IBM or MSN web sites are down are usually not do to the
servers but some other factor.  I am doughbt that either use a single
server.  If it is mission critical application that can never be down, you
should have at least 2 servers, two internet connection with two ISPs, which
is impossible.  A load balanced server farm by design would give you better
uptime than any single server solution.  Nothing can be running all the
time.


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-----Original Message-----
From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:42 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Interesting Assertions on W2K Stability



And how often has IBM's web site been down lately.  LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS.
Enough that I sarcastically say to them that I'm glad that IBM doesn't do
our website.

Rob Berendt