> One reboot during a seven month window doesn't sound too bad either. It is on 24/7 systems that had no budget for HA, especially if you had several hundred/t

> One reboot during a seven month window doesn't sound too bad either. It is on 24/7 systems that had no budget for HA, especially if you had several hundred/thousand systems and things like Ansible and Chef weren't invented yet. CFEngine was the big boy in town and Puppet was an up-and-comer. (Remember this was the 2000s). * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code