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In our case it's as cost effective to light up a Rackspace Windows VM than it is a Linux VM... There are maintenance costs on both sides. If you have to deploy
by abrudtkuhl 16y ago
In our case it's as cost effective to light up a Rackspace Windows VM than it is a Linux VM... There are maintenance costs on both sides.
If you have to deploy dozens of servers on any platform you will quickly feel that in your wallet.
- rbanffy 16y agoI have better automation facilities on Unix-like servers than I can have on Windows. Configuration replication is rather easy. My colleagues here manage 1000+ Linux servers with a homemade solution based on Puppet and Fabric and can deploy a server from power-up to ready-to-go in a couple minutes. If you can read Portuguese, they did a very good presentation at FISL in Brazil a couple days back. http://ignofisl.ig.com.br/2010/07/22/material-da-palestra-sobre-automacao-de-datacenter/ http://ignofisl.ig.com.br/2010/07/22/material-da-palestra-so...