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One of the reasons why having boxes in a data center would be good. If there was big(?) money flowing through the company regularly, Keeping the server at the
by ThinkBeat 1y ago
One of the reasons why having boxes in a data center would be good.
If there was big(?) money flowing through the company regularly,
Keeping the server at the office and the backup in the owner's house
seems like a shoestring budget.
Which was way more common in the past years, esp in small companies
when "IT" was to be cheap cheap, even if there was.
But it seems that the client in this story did not worry about cost.
Want a new server? No problem, A second one (windows) no problem?
Was stuffing the box into a data center ever brought up?
- pixl97 1y agoThey didn't seem to state a year this was occurring in, and from what is written it sounds like the internet connection was insanely slow. Back in the 95-2010 range so many places outside of towns had pretty much no internet. Maybe you'd get a meg or two up and down. Can't do much offsite with that.
- pkaeding 1y agoIt sounds like one of the VMs was a samba file server, to serve shared files for the workstations in the office. That was a common thing to run locally in the office, to keep latency down.
- tiagod 1y ago> They didn't seem to state a year this was occurring in Maybe it was modified in the last two hours, but at least now it says "About 16 years ago".
- fifticon 1y agowith the wrong admin access, cloud data can be wiped just as easily :-(
- dogleash 1y agoDude, who cares, why does it matter? They successfully designed for the failure mode experienced. If you want to fantasize about design perfectionism no need to make it about how wrong they must have been.