[sdw2003] why warranty older servers? WAS:servers from defunct ISP

[Tracy Reed]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:28:16PM -0800, James Eitzen spake thusly:
> This way you are not stuck in limbo if your hardware fails. Having spares is
> good, but spares that are used can fail too.

Our corporate policy is just the opposite as yours it would seem. We
buy spares and have employees who can do the swap. We also architect
things to remove single points of failure. We can't afford to wait
around twiddling our thumbs for 4 hours for Dell or HP or whoever to
show up. So far this has served us very well.

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Tracy Reed
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