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On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:50:53 -0400
Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> wrote:

> My only fear of this is that once this system is in production,  
> that's pretty much it.  Maintenance windows are about 1 year apart,  
> usually longer.

Seems to me you really should want a redundant / clustered system,
allowing you to do maintenance on one server while running full
production on the rest.

Just my 0.2 euros.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen