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muzzy:
"Human error is inevitable input to any complex system". Can't remember who said that, but that quote applies right here. People make mistakes, and it's better to have downtime during time you can choose beforehand. It's not like it costs that much to keep the site down a minute or two during sunday night, if everything works out fine. And if one minute of downtime has a significant cost, then it could be cheaper to just replicate the whole server and have backup take over when downtime occurs. And again, reboot won't have a significant cost.
Server uptime is not an absolute value by itself. It's insignificant.
BobTheHob:
--- Quote from: muzzy ---"Human error is inevitable input to any complex system". Can't remember who said that, but that quote applies right here. People make mistakes, and it's better to have downtime during time you can choose beforehand. It's not like it costs that much to keep the site down a minute or two during sunday night, if everything works out fine. And if one minute of downtime has a significant cost, then it could be cheaper to just replicate the whole server and have backup take over when downtime occurs. And again, reboot won't have a significant cost.
Server uptime is not an absolute value by itself. It's insignificant.
--- End quote ---
Alas, you must remember human input is also vital to the operation of computer, as a server with no OS is worthless. But it helps to have good programmers doing the input the first time, this is a big reason why windoze is such crap.
Sure, load balancing helps to combat downtime, but only if it works properly. I've used '03 Datacenter and its load balancing (along with most of everything else) is trash.
muzzy:
You seemed to miss my point. The quote is a murphy's law type of thing, which means that people will screw up, and the only way around it is to design around it, and assume it will happen. Testing is so much harder to screw up, as long as the test provides meaningful results :)
noob:
windows is so buggy is because its made by so many people. now, if M$ installed borg implants into all tyhe programmers, they could think as one, and fix all bugs at the programing stage.
Jenda:
Ouch...
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