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Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by btgeekboy on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:18PM (#13154755)
This is good advice. I'd consider not having them auto power on, however. This allows them to bring things up in a controlled manner.

That brings me to my next point: GitLab should also being mindful on what services are stored on which hardware - performing heroics to work around circular dependencies is the last thing you want to be doing when recovering from a power outage.

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Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by walrus01 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:21PM (#13154775)
Yes, this is a choice that depends on the facility, and what sort of recovery plan you have for total power failure. In many cases you would want to have everything remain off, and have a remote hands person power up certain Network equipment, and key service, before everything else. On the other hand, you may want to design everything to recover itself, without any button pushing from humans.

Depends a lot of server/HA/software architecture.

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