Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer

Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by tyingq on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:04PM (#13517655)

I would think it's largely because the cost difference between a normal server and something like a Stratus grew significantly larger over time.

You could more easily justify the cost when the upcharge wasn't so huge.

And, of course, we all got better at reliable distributed systems with commodity servers. So aside from the cost gap, the uptime gap was closing as well.

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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by ethbro on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:25PM (#13517725)

I'd tune that a bit and guess that the price of non-Stratus hardware fell through the floor.

In the mid-90s, data centers full of commodity hardware would have been cost prohibitive.

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