Em i get my internet for "free" with about a 300k max speed to the outside for living in the dorms at CMU. In exchange for that i pay $550 a month for housing which i could get off campus for about $250-300. So the implied cost of my bandwidth is $250-300 a month. For that me and 4 of my friends could split a 100mbit line and get much higher speeds for the same price...
"There is no such thing as a free internet connect"
I work on a midgrade server at work with a 5 drive 10k scsi raid 5, 2 gigs of RAM, and i believe fully implemented fault tolerance and have not had more than 1 day 12 hours of uptime (frequently a few hours). At random intervals it flashes one of the following two errors PEN LIST INCORRECT or IRQL NOT LESS THAN OR EQUAL in a handy blue screen and restarts. I have not noticed a discernable pattern as to what causes those errors as then have occured with merely a ftp server app running and the box locked. Given that the primary function of this box is being a ftp server 5 nines would of course be handy...
P.S. Yes I have tried changing the ftp program to no avail...
-Frustrated Sysadmin
I believe that there is a solution with an uptime guarantee in linux. Namely the s/390 from ibm which you can get configured for linux. I am fairly confident that that version is covered by the same uptime gurantees as other operating systems. The cost of a midgrade s/390 might be comparable to running a server farm in nt 4 or win2k given 50 midgrade servers might run you $20,000 each for about $1,000,000 total cost which is conservative considering the cost of buying 50 site licences for back office and windows itself (each run $5,000) leaving you with $10,000 to buy all the hardware and any other software you might be running.
P.S. I do not work for ibm
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Em i get my internet for "free" with about a 300k max speed to the outside for living in the dorms at CMU. In exchange for that i pay $550 a month for housing which i could get off campus for about $250-300. So the implied cost of my bandwidth is $250-300 a month. For that me and 4 of my friends could split a 100mbit line and get much higher speeds for the same price... "There is no such thing as a free internet connect"
I work on a midgrade server at work with a 5 drive 10k scsi raid 5, 2 gigs of RAM, and i believe fully implemented fault tolerance and have not had more than 1 day 12 hours of uptime (frequently a few hours). At random intervals it flashes one of the following two errors PEN LIST INCORRECT or IRQL NOT LESS THAN OR EQUAL in a handy blue screen and restarts. I have not noticed a discernable pattern as to what causes those errors as then have occured with merely a ftp server app running and the box locked. Given that the primary function of this box is being a ftp server 5 nines would of course be handy... P.S. Yes I have tried changing the ftp program to no avail... -Frustrated Sysadmin
I believe that there is a solution with an uptime guarantee in linux. Namely the s/390 from ibm which you can get configured for linux. I am fairly confident that that version is covered by the same uptime gurantees as other operating systems. The cost of a midgrade s/390 might be comparable to running a server farm in nt 4 or win2k given 50 midgrade servers might run you $20,000 each for about $1,000,000 total cost which is conservative considering the cost of buying 50 site licences for back office and windows itself (each run $5,000) leaving you with $10,000 to buy all the hardware and any other software you might be running. P.S. I do not work for ibm