From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 08:11:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151D416A503 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:11:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB7644309 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:11:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k5T8Bax60148; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <006501c69b53$ba4961c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Joao Barros" , "Nikolas Britton" References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org><20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org><20060628131353.R1114@ganymede.hub.org><8C7F19A3-647E-4FF1-9FEB-7B7DC426AB14@shire.net><20060628160833.T43909@ganymede.hub.org><33F146CC-B09E-47C9-A8A4-A493931CA2BB@shire.net><20060628192325.D43909@ganymede.hub.org> <70e8236f0606281544jdb2e7f1od3fc095d1dbdd375@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:12:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions , "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:11:56 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joao Barros" To: "Nikolas Britton" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions Questions" ; "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:44 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? > On 6/28/06, User Freebsd wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > On 6/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > >> > > > [deleted] > > >> > > >> --- > > >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > > >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider > > >> chad at shire.net > > > > > > Do you offer Xen hosting Chad?.. and back on topic... What's the point > > > of iLO Marc? What's wrong with having your server text message your > > > cell phone and then you ssh in and check what's wrong / fix it? If > > > it's a hardware problem you'll have to show up anyways, right? > > > > If the server is 300KM from... no you don't want to. > If the server is in another country for example...no you don't want to. > If you have to pay extra for someone to reboot, put a cd, whatever on > the machine, no you don't want to. > Think this through outside your usual enviroment. > I've supported and support those types of environments and it depends on the application. If the app is a critical "cannot ever go down" then you have redundant servers, and I don't care if it costs $$$ to get and keep a warm body there, your going to be spending that money. However, the vast majority of apps are NOT "cannot ever go down" apps, despite what a lot of the line managers in the organizations would have you believe about their pet projects. They can tolerate downtime if it only happens a once or twice a year, for example, even though they will scream about it, you just learn to ignore that. In those environments, if the server goes down hard and won't cold-boot, you FedEx one out there the next day and talk someone over the phone into plugging it in. And yes this can be rather expensive. That is why in those environments, people generally set them up so the servers -aren't- remotes, rather they just get better wan links. Ted