On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
- If my server costs $2000, and Jens costs $4000, then I don't need
redundant power supplies since I have redundant *servers*. With only a little bit of work to make sure that dead machines are taken out of service, we have a lot more capacity for the same money.
You don't have to buy brand servers to get redundant power supplies. You get fairly cheap generic rackmount boxes with this feature.
- A remote controller would be sweet in our current facility. But
we are going to move to a facility with the following features -- (1) 24 hour a day remote "hands on" service (2) geographically close to me and my employees so that we can physically drive over (more on this later today or tomorrow after I tour one more facility).
You also get fairly cheap video adapter cards with serial output. Which gives you access to bios, the boot procedure, etc.
-- Daniel