Danny Howard
@thatcks Blog post!? Thanks! My wonder is because I'm deploying LDAP and DNS: requirements are modest and I have 5yo servers sitting around.
Hey @thatcks if your desktop is five years old, how old do your servers go? The fleet at my company seem to be lasting forever ...
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@thatcks On the one hand, old servers might die ... on the other hand, they're free and I design for failure ... - View other replies
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@dannyman We update server hardware partly to avoid awkward explanations to users about why a service had a visible downtime.
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@FunnelFiasco@thatcks Startups can be cheap, too. We can afford gear, but I've got perfectly good servers sitting on the floor ...
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@dannyman I'd better add: this is just infrastructure servers. Profs who need compute power turn over servers much faster (using grants). -
@dannyman Mind you, the only reason the Dells are still in service is that we have someone who can replace busted, bulging capacitors. -
@dannyman We try to update servers, but we still have Dell 2950s/1950s & SunFire X2100s in service. The Dells are prob. over 10 years old.
Chris Siebenmann
Ben Cotton
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