[gnhlug-announce] SLUG "problem solution" meeting Monday 7/14 7pm at UNH in Morse 301

Bob Bell bbell at hp.com
Thu Jul 10 11:52:04 EDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:47:05AM -0400, pll at lanminds.com <pll at lanminds.com> wrote:
> In a message dated: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:16:09 EDT
> Bob Bell said:
> >On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:51AM -0400, Brian <lists at karas.net> wrote:
> >> I think many sites consider downtime to just be part of life for
> >> server moves, upgrades, etc.  Even "name brand" sites like ebay and
> >> Amazon have maintenance windows regularly where the site is pretty
> >> much offline an unavailable.
> >
> >    That's pretty stupid if they do.  Clustering technologies should let
> >you avoid this.
> 
> True, but there's really not a viable clustering solution on Linux/BSD
> which many of these sites are built on.  
> 
> MCL almost had a viable solution, but was very immature, and needed a 
> *lot* of work.  I don't know what's happened since they went away, or 
> if RH has enhanced Kimberlite enough to make it a viable option to 
> TrueClusters, etc.  I suppose it's possible :)

    Well, then these sites should install HP-UX or Tru64 UNIX with
TruClusters and keep me employed  :-)

-- 
Bob Bell <bbell at hp.com>
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