> Nor should it be acceptable to just flip the switch and reboot the server. Mainframe systems have safeguards against such practices. And mainframes rarely, if

> Nor should it be acceptable to just flip the switch and reboot the server. Mainframe systems have safeguards against such practices. And mainframes rarely, if ever, need to be restarted because the system is hung or because of a software glitch. This is the opposite philosophy to Chaos Monkey or failover drills, where you kill your instances/servers/racks/zones/dcs/continents at random and fix whatever broke. Cattle vs pets.