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I agree, that is keeping your site up not your server, but that's what I should care about. We all went to RAID so we could keep our disk-subsystems up, not our individual drives. -Walden -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bipes [mailto:chris.bipes@cross-check.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:26 PM To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Interesting Assertions on W2K Stability Agreed, with at least 2 servers located in two cities using two ISPs you can get rid of any single point of failure. Your server may still go down but your site will remain up. Again that is keeping your site up 24x7 not your server. The server will be down for maintenance, upgrades or what ever other reasons but hopefully not both server at the same time. This is why we maintain a hot backup site in another location. We can move our traffic from California to Wisconsin and our customers will never know. We switch traffic and update one server, then test. If testing works on the live server, we switch traffic back. The next day we will update the other server. And we still have down time due to DNS or Registry problems. Our main weakness has been only one ISP. We are switching this month but not able to have two ISPs concurrently load balancing our traffic between our two sites. Maybe some day. Christopher K. Bipes mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com Operations & Network Mgr mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com CrossCheck, Inc. http://www.cross-check.com 6119 State Farm Drive Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102 Rohnert Park CA 94928 Fax: 707 586-1884 -----Original Message----- From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [mailto:MNWills@taylorcorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:02 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: Interesting Assertions on W2K Stability Why not? If it is truly that important, say a life support system. Wouldn't you want it to be 99.9999% uptime or better? 2 redundant servers? Easy. 2 internet connections from 2 ISPs? Expensive but can be done. My previous ISP did that. They were having problems with a ISPs uptime, so they got another connection from a different provider as redundancy. _______________________________________________ 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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