[87011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trollage (Re: Akamai server reliability)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Nov 28 14:32:49 2005
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:31:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0511281116250.252@paixhost.pch.net>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>,
Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>, Roy <garlic@garlic.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > > I know the idea is to have very cheap boxes in clusters, but I wonder
> > > how much they're paying in shipping for replacing the cheap hardware.
> > Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS
> > strategy.
>
> Yep, that's true. Shipping is cheap, it's customs that's expensive and
> time-consuming, and Akamai tends to avoid the kind of places where you
> have to deal with a lot of customs.
I'd note that the original poster didn't classify 'broken' or 'outage' or
'non-functioning'... just the end result: "replacement".
So, is akamai doing some fancy SMART detection and seeing bad fans and
replacing, seeing a bad cpu fan or disk or memory corruption and
replacing, or are these hard box outages with no recourse but a complete
immediate replacement?
(just curious as they don't let us play with these pieces/parts :) )
