[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >So exactly WHY are we going to a new, bigger capacity setup when we, >in some cases (bandwidth), are not yet using the current fully? Can >somone explain that? When I was in the corporate mainframe world, we >would usually not buy a new CPU until we had been running 100% usage >for months..and disks when we were at 80-90% of capacity.. > > Also, there is the issue that internet traffic tends to be "bursty", which leads many web hosts and ISP's to upgrade equipment when they reach 50% of capacity or so. Maybe your shop had similarly unpredictable traffic, but I really think that waiting until our resources were more than 80% utilized would be a bad idea, unless we could really deal with *lots* of downtime.
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