Re: Where do we need servers?

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Marc,
>
>> Agreed, but the cause of the 12hr+ downtimes were due to fsck taking as
>> long as it did, and that has been fixed.  Its the '3 days downtime' that
>> we need to avoid in the future, where its not a hardware, but a provider,
>> issue ...
>
> And these sorts of things will occur again in the future.  Our
> (ethosmedia.com) servers have had better uptime than postgresql.org, but
> even we've been offline for a half-day twice in the last 18months due to
> DDOS attacks downing the firewall box.  Outages *will* happen, and
> you're doing the whole community a disservice to pretend that they
> won't.

Ummmm, I finished off my post above stating that we do need to avoid such
downtimes in the future .. *scratch head*

In fact, I even sent Magnus an email off list, as I think that who I was
talking ot in IRC about the redundancy in the EU, and Magnus, are the same
person, and I wasn't putting the two together ;(

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664