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This doesn't make sense to me. I work for a CDN with tens of thousands of servers in over a hundred data centers. We are always working to improve our turnaroun
by cortesoft 6y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. I work for a CDN with tens of thousands of servers in over a hundred data centers. We are always working to improve our turnaround time on repairing servers, even though we have thousands. Hard drive failure is one of the leading causes of server failures. Dead servers means diminished capacity, and capacity is what pays our bills.
Farmers absolutely have a vet who takes care of the cattle. I am not sure what you are on about.
The whole point of cattle-vs-pets is you are supposed to treat all the servers the same, not that you have to treat all of them poorly.
- Terretta 6y agoLess is more. Another contrarian view — particuarly suitable for large VDN content like media, not small CDN content like html/js — is that one doesn’t need to be in over a hundred data centers, one needs to be in the key exchanges: you don’t have to be at the ends of every spoke if you pick the right hubs. Agree swapping bad drives is a reasonable use of smart hands when done in batches, as no diagnosis is needed. I’d advocate considering extending that practice to the servers themselves. Math works if you find local tech repo/refurb shops that take gear (w/o drives) to bulk refurb & resell. The other way is to get your OEM to provide aliveness-as-a-service. Anything so you don’t have to do manual labor, ideally ever.