On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:29, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:15:01PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > > but anyway, I'd suggest your pal to standardize on 2-3 rather than 6-7 > > platforms.. > > I'd also suggest that he avoid any automatic upgrade strategy. If you look > back to the fall of 2005, you will see where thousands of systems running > the same opensource application all crashed around 2am local time. :-( > > They were providing a service that customers expected 24/7 service with > no downtime. One user had around 2,000 servers crash. >
May I inquire to which incident exactly you are referring to? Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]