02.01.2012 17:40, Lester Caine wrote: > In my own cases, ANY downtime during office hours is unacceptable, so any > failure that brings the whole system down would result in penalties! Organised > downtime is possible on many sites, but some sites are running 24/7, So we > maintain data in a manor that the system will work with elements down, but the > database operation must be maintained. Firebird has been running reliably for > many years on these sites, when other services HAVE crashed, to the extent > that > services have been moving onto our framework due simply to it's reliability:) > > Customers care very much about downtime ... especially if it HAS to happen > simply for maintenance reasons.
But maintenance doesn't inevitable cause downtime. Maintenance of one piece of a system can't stop whole system if other pieces will do all the job. This is the main idea behind RAID1-6, for example. What's wrong with your system if it cannot work without only one part of it?.. -- SY, SD. PS: For me it is rather strange to talk about so basic principles of reliability here... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
