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shoot a guest VM in the head? That particular wording indicates you might have been doing Linux HA a little bit too much :)

• GauntletWizard 10y ago
  No, actually, it's very common terminology among people managing large enough installations to "treat servers as cattle, not like pets". Re-deploying the entire service, with a copy of the previous data or without, should be a common exercise.
  • chx 10y ago
    Is it really? I've never heard this particular wording before (and neither had Google, mind you) but it very strongly resembles Shoot The Other Node In The Head (STONITH).
  • ckozlowski 10y ago
    We (I work for AWS) call it "Architecting for Failure", but yes, you could call it that too. =) In an ideal application, instances are a commodity. Not every workload is there yet, so there's a need still for individual instance recovery. But it's something we and our customers strive for.
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