Re: [cobalt-users] 99.9% up time

[James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> on 4/12/00 10:27 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Colin Smith wrote:
> >
> >>> I want to garanty a 99.9% up time to my customers.
> >>> I have an idea on how to do it but I need some advise..
> >>> I was thinking about imaging the rack once a day on another backup rack
> >>> If anyone has done this before or has been doing it please let me 
> know....
> >>> Any information on garanting a 99.9% up time would be very apprechiatted.
> >>
> >> 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.

Ok, I'll give it a try then ... :-)

Late on a Saturday night, the power supply melts,
or the ethernet port decides to stop working, or ...

So, with only a UPS and a guaranteed network connection,
you deal with this how?

Sounds like you're idea of 99.9% uptime assumes
no actual problems ... :-)

J

-------------------------
James Robertson
Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy
Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution

http://www.steptwo.com.au/
jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx