Just another fckin rant

[Ardesco]

Apple - Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard

I've had mine running 467 days and counting without a failure yet. knob.

I used to have a couple on 700+ days but I rebuilt then recently with Squeeze which required a reboot. Current longest is:


ardesco@foo:~$ uptime
23:13:28 up 395 days, 6:25, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.36, 0.59
ardesco@foo:~$

although I need to upgrade and rebuild that at some point too. Don't need OSX for a stable server

[RichardCranium]

Hot Swap San. Wow, that was a girl with a deep otter's pocket.

Yeah, I remember her. She was a goer.

[d000hg]

Cough. That's what we I redundancy. The busted one goes in the bin and a replacement is up and running in a few minutes. Hot swappable I believe is the term.

They have hot-swap on Macs now? Don't tell me, Apple "invented" it a year or two back?

[Sockpuppet]

Could all this just not have been solved by having a raid. Even cheap ass on the server board intel raid?

[scooterscot]

Don't need OSX for a stable server

Agree. Anything Linux does the job, does not need a fancy GUI.

[scooterscot]

They have hot-swap on Macs now? Don't tell me, Apple "invented" it a year or two back?

Why it even looks pretty... 7 years old I think.



Apple (United Kingdom) - Xserve

[scooterscot]

Hot swap SAN. Wow that's a project with deep pockets.

A downed server, loss of service far out ways the cost of replacing the server, even after an hour of downtime.

You you want to charge big bucks in the years ahead? Don't bother with developing new technologies nobody has the money to invest or develop. Instead make what you have already more reliable; my customers cannot get enough of it.