[1056] in IS Home Pages
Re: IS Product Page corrections, sorry i didn't get these out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Griffith)
Wed Mar 15 20:37:53 2000
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:39:16 -0500
To: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu>, is-home@mit.edu
From: Chris Griffith <cg@MIT.EDU>
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At 7:44 PM -0500 3/15/00, Jonathan McIndoe Hunt wrote:
>First of all, the pages look really nice and should provide added
>functionality. Good job! The pages are loading quickly and it
>hasn't crashed in 5 minutes like it used to, so I am happy. I am
>still very concerned about it being housed on a machine in N42 which
>has been off the net 3 times already this year. Can we please talk
>about moving this to a production server on one of the server
>subnets, perhaps in W91, W20, or E40?
Please. How many times has the certificates server in E40 choked?
Building location means little when discussing server reliability.
Several servers are run from N42, including the stock answers server.
Those servers have virtually zero downtime. N42 may not be as
bullet-proof as E40/W91 but it's good enough for services that aren't
mission-critical. ("Mission critical" meaning services such as web
and email).
Rather than focusing on the building where the server is housed,
consider these factors instead:
- Are technically-qualified persons keeping a close eye on the
server, so they can respond quickly to outages?
- Is the server in an environment that's conducive to keeping it
online as much as possible? E.g. is it housed in a secure server
closet on a UPS? Or is it sitting on someone's desk, where anyone
could touch it, and where someone could accidentally kick out the
power cable?
I can't answer these questions for the server Jonathan is referring
to (training.mit.edu), since that machine isn't part of our server
room in N42. If the reliability of training.mit.edu is a problem,
I'd encourage its owner to contact hdadmin@mit.edu and talk about the
possibility housing it with our other servers. I'm pretty sure that
we have space and resources to house it.
Chris
