Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co...
by edblarney on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:34PM
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Agreed - but also consider 'multiple points of redundancy'.
If you have your service spread across 10K servers, well, it doesn't matter if some go down.
Instead of making them all 100% super fault-tolerant for a crazy expensive unit price, you can make them relatively cheap and replace them when they fail.
If you have your service spread across 10K servers, well, it doesn't matter if some go down.
Instead of making them all 100% super fault-tolerant for a crazy expensive unit price, you can make them relatively cheap and replace them when they fail.