[oclug] RedHat Enterprise and HP servers

[Andrew J. Hutton]

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:41, Messier, Jean-Francois wrote:
> I agree those are overpowered for our application too, however, we need
> reliability, for production servers that *cannot* get down.

Paying more does not buy you reliability, it just delays when failures will 
occur.

You'd be far better off purchasing two smaller cheaper well made systems and 
running a 2nd on-site DNS server for when the 1st is not available. 

Reliability is knowing you can cope with a single point of failure, even Space 
Shuttles fail.