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Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by user5994461 on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:00AM (#12943122)
OMG A server WITHOUT ECC memory. #fear

Let's not call that a server but a desktop computer please ^^

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The point of the cloud is to manage MANY servers. If all you have is a single box, you don't need help to manage it, you don't need AWS/GCE.

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Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by ex3ndr on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:22AM (#12943186)
If i can buy two desktops instead of one server then i can made a nice failover configuration instead of using just one server. Also as i know google and fb think that ecc is useless, isn't it?

Well, just order 50 of them and install k8s.

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Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by puzzle on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:12AM (#12943665)
Failover is useless when you have already increased your chances of corrupting data. Even with ECC there's some degree of corruption; doing without is suicidal.

Google figured quite early in its life that RAM was the one component not to skimp on: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html

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