Re:Highly available Kubernetes with batteries for small busi...
by snuxoll on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:41PM
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AS/400 lives on today as IBM i, the lifeblood of my employer (our billing system) runs on a POWER8 box running i and while I’m not a huge fan I appreciate the thing staying running without any fuss for years at a time (IPLs for periodic system updates and just to make sure it still boots notwithstanding).
Re:Highly available Kubernetes with batteries for small busi...
by battery423 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:34AM
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The last ~10 years, i have had rarely any real hardware issues.
My current server is hardware from 2012.
Someone said that just a few weeks ago 'Cars you buy today are all good enough. You will not buy a car today and it will rust tomorrow.'
The only reason why i migrated my desktop pc to become my server, was the new DSLR which made Lightroom unusable due to the raw image size.
I might even think, that Computer Hardware in general is very very reliable. Besides the capacitor plague issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague that gave systems a bad lifetime.
And i have plenty of systems here which are running for years and have seen plenty of ubuntu upgrades as well.
If something goes wrong it will call for help, before you even know something was wrong.
It depends on what you define a small business as though.
Back in the days these were extremely reliable. I have seen them in closets, covered with everything else you would find in a closet.
Used by everyone day in and day out, nobody knew where it was or what it was.
It also, in my opinon, had a nifty operating system with a lots of inventive ideas when it came out.
I wish they had released the OS when they discontinued the line.