Re: [cobalt-users] 99.9% up time

[mika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> >> 99.9% is 9 hours per year, that's easy. All you need for that is a good
> >> UPS and a guaranteed network link. The box will do 99.9% all on it's 
own.
> >> It's worth mirroring it's internal disks though just to be sure.
> >
> > Surely you dream.
> >
> > I had started to write an example of why not, but decided not to bother.
>
> IMHO three nines is easy.  I could do that with crappy hardware and NT if 
I
> was careful.  I don't think I have a single machine (even a workstation)
> that isn't 99.9% available.  Start talking about 5 or 6 nines, and I 
start
> getting impressed.

99.9% IS easy, IF you avoid any reconfigurations. But if reconfiguration 
is neccessary (for example because one hosts multiple changing customers 
on a single machine) sooner or later something will went wrong. I bet!

Bye
	Michael