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On a web there is no difference. Would you be upset if you went to Amazon.com and saw a page that said, "We're sorry our site is currently down due to PLANNED downtime. Please visit us again in an hour." I know I'd be really pissed off. Part of the argument against the AS/400 vs. a server farm is that the 400 is a single point of failure. I don't care how rarely the 400 is down (Planned and unplanned) when it's down the site is down. However, if I have a farm of W2K servers and I assume 99% uptime per server (VERY fair assumption) then I only have to have 3 machines in my farm to have a 99.9999% uptime (in theory). Hey, but these machines are cheap, let's have 6. In theory that's 99.9999999999% uptime. -Walden -----Original Message----- From: Dave Schopp [mailto:dschopp@imt.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:27 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform) I am just guessing here, but I believe that magic of "five nines" refers to UNPLANNED downtime, not the scheduled, planned for, anticipated, regular downtime that all shops perform. Just a guess. -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 14:17 To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' Subject: RE: NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform) >you want the 99.9999 reliability? Surely you jest. 99.9999% That's 31.5 SECONDS of downtime in a year. Given that there isn't an AS/400 that you can shutdown and re-ipl within 31.5 seconds you're saying you haven't IPLed this year, at all, for anything (release, PTF, crash?) Maybe 99.999%, well that just over 5 minutes. I doubt you could bring a machine down and back up in five minutes. Maybe 99.99%, that would be almost an hour. That I'd buy. Of course I have no problem getting that from a cluster of W2K machines either. -Walden _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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