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Comment how much do you want to spend?? (Score 1) 298

you may have heard "good fast cheap... pick 2" this is similar.

if your content is dynamic, you have more to worry about. DB servers, storage other application specific issues...

if your content is static or close to it, round robin DNS is plenty. rsync between 2 boxes, and set up the round robin. How far away the boxes are determines how long they take to sync and how much of a safety net it really is. next to each other in the same rack protects from HW fault. different datacenters protects from power and networking. Different states protects from natural disasters.

if you don't know how much to spend then....
you need to figure out how much money downtime (unexpected) costs you. Then you can figure out how much to spend to reduce your chance of tht downtime. If it's going to cost you $1000 per hour, and you expect that with 2 boxes in the same datacenter there might be a 1% chance of failure of both systems that would require 24h to come back up, then your total loss would be 24K, 1% of that is $240 to spend on mitigation. in that case, put your systems in different datacenters. If you're going to lose $100,000/hour, then spend 100x on mitigation.

Comment Re:Good Riddance (Score 2, Informative) 756

A simple design based on decades of experience and the most modern of materials. Remember, the Glock is in most cases replacing a weapon designed in 1911!

Uh, the Glock has mostly replaced revolvers in police inventories. The Beretta 92F (which we renamed the M9) replaced the 1911 as our standard military sidearm.

And there is a trend back to the 1911. FBI HRT uses custom Springfields. LAPD SWAT went with a Kimber Custom. And I hear they were still quite popular with our guys in the Gulf.

The manual of arms for a 1911 (cocked and locked, hooyah!) is a bit more complicated than a revolver or a glock, but it's the choice of the many highly trained professionals.

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