Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by mrweasel on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:08AM
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There is a good point to the drift of functions. You just need to run this one thing, and you do have that server which could just run it. It's a very real thing.
Where I see this most often is with companies that place a unusual high cost on servers, virtual machines or containers. In those cases I normally just application servers, that's a good a description as any. The only difference is that I won't thing twice about deleting a server called app01 and recreate it using Ansible, Puppet, docker-compose or whatever deployment tool that customer uses.
In my mind there aren't "pets" any more, and if there is that's a mistake that needs to be corrected. The customers I deal with who have pet servers are the most dysfunctional and the ones with the most challenges, both technically and organisational.
Where I see this most often is with companies that place a unusual high cost on servers, virtual machines or containers. In those cases I normally just application servers, that's a good a description as any. The only difference is that I won't thing twice about deleting a server called app01 and recreate it using Ansible, Puppet, docker-compose or whatever deployment tool that customer uses.
In my mind there aren't "pets" any more, and if there is that's a mistake that needs to be corrected. The customers I deal with who have pet servers are the most dysfunctional and the ones with the most challenges, both technically and organisational.