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All comes down to uptime. 20 years ago we had 1000+ days uptime on DEC kit. No one was even impressed by 500 days. Nowadays people build all sorts of elaborate
by gaius 9y ago
All comes down to uptime.
20 years ago we had 1000+ days uptime on DEC kit. No one was even impressed by 500 days. Nowadays people build all sorts of elaborate contraptions to do what used to be entirely ordinary
- zzzcpan 9y agoBy uptime people usually mean availability to the end users, not a literal uptime. Which also includes availability of an entire datacenter infrastructure, connectivity, internet infrastructure, making it pretty much impossible to have high availability in a singe datacenter.
- gaius 9y agoHeh, I guess. In my scenario the users actually got that uptime too, ‘cos they were connected over LAT...
- saryant 9y agoDoesn't do much good if you have to fail out of an entire data center.
- gaius 9y agoYou can with VMScluster. There are multi-site clusters with 15+ years uptime.