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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10536 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:13146 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3841 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Message-ID: <DC873M.C0s@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <3uk3b5$35a@legend.txdirect.net> <DC3sEM.1Jr@saturn.tlug.org> <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 15:02:09 GMT Lines: 37 In article <tgmDC46x0.A4M@netcom.com> tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes: >FreeBSD ftp.cdrom.com crashed earlier this year and was down for over a >week. The fallout was catastrophic. Anyone who would be so foolish as >to use FreeBSD as a mission critical server should ask the OS/2 >community which was schwacked hard by the loss of a major FTP site. Being down for a week is nothing to do with system reliability. Thats down and completely trashed during the 2.3->2,4 upgrade process. Wuarchive has had crashes. If your software crashes the worst you have to do with an ftp archive is restore the backup or mirror your archive back from a mirror site. If you lose hardware its down to the vagueries of delivery and orders. At least PC hardware is so cheap you can keep spare machines and still pay less than for a Sun, and you can easily play swap the boards to cannibalise other gear. >was the cost to the Internet community? What would be the cost to your >business to lose connectivity for a week? How "Free" is FreeBSD when Huge, but you'd have to take out 6 ISDN lines, 2 network links, and in dire emergency a UUCP feed as well as about 8 PC's to achieve that. Since that would probably take a bomb attack, its an acceptable current level of risk. >you factor in over a week of downtime? Face it, if you need 24 hour per >day, 365 day per year reliability, FreeBSD will *NOT* cut it. Nor will anything else built by man Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' Redistribution of this message via the Microsoft Network is prohibited