> From: David Lang [mailto:[email protected]] > > in some cases, the price difference can be enough for you to have redundant > whitebox systems for the price of a single high-end system. this can seriously > alter the risk calculation (at the cost of double the space/power)
Agreed - Sometimes I recommend buying twice as many cheap boxes that cost half as much, because if 10% of them are inoperable at any given time, you still have 90% gain for the same cost. That depends on whether your architecture requires a single high availability machine to stay up all the time, or a cluster of disposable machines that only some percentage of them need to be up at any given time. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
