I guess the "BSD is DEAD" boneheads do not manage servers on the net.. Can you say STABLE.. SECURE, UPTIME? As for support? -- Rackspace offers FreeBSD on Dedicated servers with 24x7 Support.. Hmm I have never called them for support on my machines.. wonder why?
Isn't Hotmail still "stuck" with BSD on the backend? I remember an article on the WALNUT CREEK ftp server, serving more ftp users daily (over a terrabyte of data) on a single Pentuim Pro than the entire MS FTP Farm (700 GB)...
Hmm I recently remember having to change out 3 Linux boxes to FreeBSD because the Linux boxes choked on 160K mail messages per hour. Hmm have not recieved an alarm on the FreeBsd boxes in six months.. I wonder if my pager is broken?
Bottom Line... I support systems over vast geographical areas. Most of the time the client has no experience with nix. The client usally wants some service or product to be supported 24x7. What do I do? Install the solution on Sun Hardware and Solaris. I configure the systems for dynamic reconfiguration and sleep very well. In fact I just finished a three year contract for support of 3,000 mail users (internal) Calendar services, LDAP and Dual Firewalls.. Down time in three years was 24 minutes for the mail server (Had to add new storage system).
When the customer saw the uptime and the fact that my maintenance was only about 1 hour a week, they decided on a block support contract for the future. Now that company is looking to have the rest of there critical services moved to SUN. Note BIG NT shop.. (yea I replaced exchange that was down 3-5 times a month with 3 engineers supporting that part of the infrastructure).. Oh did I mention that I am 2,000 miles away and have not even been to the site?
If you know what to do with Sun Platforms you can get outstanding results. So have a experienced engineer implement the solution and have your stressed out junior staff manage the clients..
I love linux and BSD too.I just cannot do the magic that I do on sun boxes with Intel platforms.
BTW.. my support contracts are usually 2x SUN for any wintel or intel solutions.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess the "BSD is DEAD" boneheads do not manage servers on the net.. Can you say STABLE.. SECURE, UPTIME? As for support? -- Rackspace offers FreeBSD on Dedicated servers with 24x7 Support.. Hmm I have never called them for support on my machines.. wonder why? Isn't Hotmail still "stuck" with BSD on the backend? I remember an article on the WALNUT CREEK ftp server, serving more ftp users daily (over a terrabyte of data) on a single Pentuim Pro than the entire MS FTP Farm (700 GB)... Hmm I recently remember having to change out 3 Linux boxes to FreeBSD because the Linux boxes choked on 160K mail messages per hour. Hmm have not recieved an alarm on the FreeBsd boxes in six months.. I wonder if my pager is broken?
Bottom Line ... I support systems over vast geographical areas. Most of the time the client has no experience with nix. The client usally wants some service or product to be supported 24x7. What do I do? Install the solution on Sun Hardware and Solaris. I configure the systems for dynamic reconfiguration and sleep very well. In fact I just finished a three year contract for support of 3,000 mail users (internal) Calendar services, LDAP and Dual Firewalls.. Down time in three years was 24 minutes for the mail server (Had to add new storage system).
When the customer saw the uptime and the fact that my maintenance was only about 1 hour a week, they decided on a block support contract for the future. Now that company is looking to have the rest of there critical services moved to SUN. Note BIG NT shop.. (yea I replaced exchange that was down 3-5 times a month with 3 engineers supporting that part of the infrastructure) .. Oh did I mention that I am 2,000 miles away and have not even been to the site?
If you know what to do with Sun Platforms you can get outstanding results. So have a experienced engineer implement the solution and have your stressed out junior staff manage the clients..
I love linux and BSD too.I just cannot do the magic that I do on sun boxes with Intel platforms.
BTW.. my support contracts are usually 2x SUN for any wintel or intel solutions.