Chad M Stewart wrote:
And if you'd pre-ordered 3.8 then you might have gotten an email like I
did today. :-) Now I just need enough revenue from my new company so I
can replace all of my "servers" with real boxes like V20z and X4100.
Funny now that I'm now longer an employee of Sun I'll potentially be
purchasing more hardware from them than when I was an employee.
Well, welcome to the self employed world!
Just to things for you here!
First, your business WILL be successful because you already maid the
most important decision of all! You pick OpenBSD to run your business
with! I did that 7 years ago after doing research for efficient OS and
most importantly to me then and still now, security. Small business have
limited resources and waisting your time trying to have your servers
stay stable is not something that will be productive and help you! Many
times, small business are one men game, or just a few friends at best,
so all the time you have available needs to be put into making your
business work!
The last thing you need is spending it doing patches and rebuilt like
with Micro$oft, God help me here! (:>
Now the second thing however, make sure you pick hardware that is fully
supported and make your choices wisely. The X4100 is to new and now out
yet, now do we know if it is supported yet. I love the box myself and I
most likely will get one to test, but that's only because now I am able
in limits obviously to get hardware and then put it on the self for a
year if need be because it doesn't work now.
For the V20z, as far as I know, it work well!
So, welcome to the big OpenBSD small successful businesses!
You already had done the most important work!
Pick the right OS to get some most definitely needed good sleep in the
months ahead! (:> With OpenBSD on your server, you KNOW you can sleep at
night when you actually have time to do so when you built your own business!
Good luck to you and welcome to OpenBSD!
I choose that OS 7 years ago and NEVER looked back!
Daniel
PS: Just a wise advise however, make it a policy to keep upgrading to
the new OS when they release it as well and don't use the excuse that it
work now, so why change it! I suffer this over confidence stage with the
release 3.0 where I got bitten, by my own fault I have to admit, by the
only bug ever known to OpenBSD and that Christmas, almost put me out of
business! No one else to blame but myself on that one! I always been to
busy doing business work and fell that I could wait a bit more to
upgrade my server and why do it, it works well as it is now! If I can
offer one advise, take it from my own stupidity and don't do that one!
There is plenty of other one you will do! (:>
