And are you talking about your real experience or you're just hypothesizing?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Lee Bolding <l...@leesbian.net> wrote:
>
> On 8 Jan 2010, at 14:40, Sid Bachtiar wrote:
>
>>>>> If your server goes
>>>>> bump in the night, who you gonna call?
>>
>>>> We have our own support team to call :-)
>>
>>> Yes, but a salaried employee is more expensive than raising a ticket on a 
>>> case-by-case basis with the likes of Zend (or buying a support contract to 
>>> begin with)
>>
>> Seriously, you'd call Zend/Microsoft in the middle of the night to fix
>> your server that goes bump?
>
> Obviously, try a reboot or whatever first - the response time of even an hour 
> makes it worth trying basic stuff before calling them, but if it's looking 
> like something more serious, then yes.
>
> Besides, with a support contract that says I can (and not get charged extra 
> for it) why the hell wouldn't I?
>
> Spending 10's of thousands of dollars on a salaried employee to do that, when 
> Zend will already do it is crazy. Zend have employees all over the world, so 
> it doesn't matter what time of day it is. Can you guarantee your SysAdmin 
> will even wake up and answer the phone? or won't be out drinking or something 
> else?
>
> As I said before - risk register. Reduce the risk whenever you can (this is 
> why we also remove code whenever we can - less support risk, less risk of 
> bugs etc), this approach usually doesn't cost any extra - it's just a shift 
> in mentality.
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