You are betting the farm on a single point of failure. I would recommend at least getting one more box that you backup/replicate to in case the mothership goes down. My 2 cents on the situation. Mr. B-o-B ----- Reply message ----- From: "Brian Wood" <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> To: "tclug-list" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: [tclug-list] free: sunfire v20z Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 14:11 So I don't have much money to spend on hardware, but have been avoiding the idea of cobbling together a number of machines to form a server farm. Currently my server is an 8 GB, quad core HP desktop. Sadly that's more than enough at this time. (I know that the situation on the ground can change rapidly, and am hopeful for such a change.) Generally, my strategy is to use efficient tools ... I ported a utility program recently from Python to C++ ... I've spent a lot of time making the distribution parts of the software efficient http://webEbenezer.net/build_integration.html ... and I'm working on moving from using ssh to IPsec because I believe it will scale better and be more efficient. So most of what I've done has been designed toward making it possible to support a lot of users with relatively cheap hardware. (Being an entreprenuer isn't as glamorous as they make it look on TV.) Just having one server is much nicer than having a bunch of them, especially for someone like me who isn't a sys admin guru. What do you think about the one server strategy? Does the "beggars can't be choosers" maxim mean I should be building a farm and biting the administrations bullets? Tia. -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - All the world is just a narrow bridge; the most important thing is not to be afraid. Rebbe Nachman http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130609/a3b4fe30/attachment.html>