Re: Can we build a proper email cluster? (was: Re: Why is debian.org email so unreliable?)
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:36:07 +1000, Russell wrote in message
<[🔎] 200410150036.07801.russell@coker.com.au>:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:25, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> > > The Debian email isn't that big. We can do it all on a single
> > > machine(including spamassasin etc) with capacity to spare.
> >
> > Or we can do it in two, with capacity to spare AND no downtime.
>
> Increasing the number of machines increases the probability of one
> machine failing for any given time period. Also it makes it more
> difficult to debug problems as you can't always be certain of which
> machine was involved.
..very true, even for aero engines. The reason the airlines like
2, 3 or even 4 rather than one jet.
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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