[theforum] Results Discussion (was Re: Results (was Re: RFV:ServerMatrix Hosting for l.e.o))

Dean Mah dmah at shaw.ca
Wed Jun 9 13:22:41 CDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:40:32PM +0000, Elfur Logadottir wrote:
> From: "Dean Mah"
> 
> | On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:19:32PM +0100, William Anderson wrote:
> | > Dean Mah wrote:
> | > >[snip]
> | > >
> | > I really think buying cheap now is a bad move, as the votes have shown.
> | > Anyone could have retracted or altered their vote after Jeff's comments,
> | > no-one did.  Let's do the $99/mo thang, and sort Jeff out with some
> | > contributory costs too.
> |
> | I'd say go for the cheap way so that we could get two cheap boxes so
> | that we can do dual hosting later.  There's nothing to support the
> | idea that we will have enough money to buy a $99 and a $49 later.
> 
> pardon my ignorance, but is dual hosting better than both on one bigger box?
> if we get the $99 box now ... isn't that enough to host both current raq and
> weo?

The thought was to do load balancing for DNS at the very least and
potentially with w.e.o.  Dual hosting lets us do failovers to the
redundant box in case one of the servers goes down.  In the SCADA
world, having redundant servers is a given to provide reliability.

Dean




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