Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 20:07:01 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>, Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TS Holy War (was Re: Some advice needed.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970412200310.2196D-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <26230.860883125@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I know of one ISP who had 3 machines doing the work of one (everything > split out, as you say, but with only 200 customers) and it only increased > the maintainance headache to *no* gain whatsoever. 3 machines to secure, > 3 machines to maintain, it was evil. I stuck all the services back > on ONE machine again and made a 2nd one a redundant spare for the 1st, > with all of its important files rsync'd over nightly. The 3rd machine > then came free to go to someone's house or something. :-) But 200 customers is not an ISP, that's a hobby ;) As far as maintaining 3, well, seal them off to the world; the shell machine is really the major risk. Plus, if you standardize on one OS (like FBSD) and one release, things you folks provide us like CVSUP make maintenance a breeze. I maintain a dozen machines along with one other person, and it got really easy once we got an OS that worked. It's a nice learning environment that really pays off in the long run. You end up writing scripts to do such tasks as blowing your nose :) Charles
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