Re: [cobalt-users] What do we all think the new features will be inthe Cobalt's pending release?

[Travis Ogdon <togdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Werby wrote:

> Not at all.  StaqWare is a hardware/software solution that handles
> failover and synchronization for 2 identical RaQs on the same network.  It
> has no reseller panel.  Personally, based on what it cost (at least when
> it came out, no idea what it goes for now) and the fact that you'd get
> better redundancy if the 2 servers were in different physical locations, I
> think a custom software solution that does failover and syncing between 2
> servers hundreds of miles apart is probably preferable in most cases.

It goes for nothing now. They discontinued it. Additionally your boxes that
were running StaqWare will remain unpatched, since they don't care to
release updates that work with StaqWare. When they do make releases they
require non-existant versions of StaqWare to be installed in order to apply
them. 

Our experience with StaqWare has been nothing but pain. Out of our original
three clusters only one remains, and that's because we're scared shitless
that the 250 customers who are on it will experience significant downtime if
we touch the damn thing (the others died without us even touching them). 

Reliability-wise I'd recommend a 4r any day of the week over two 4is running
StaqWare. You're sure to have at least one working hard drive that you can
slam into a spare 4r...

By the way... if anyone knows where to get StaqWare 1.5 (the last version we
ever saw was 1.2) let me know where I can grab it from. No one who we've
contacted at Sun has any knowledge of that version (too bad since it's
required by the kernel updates that are required to apply any of the 2.0
patches).

-- Travis