Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/14/08 11:18

Baho Utot wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
> [putolin]
>
>> The last major power outage her was over 5 days.
>
> Well even in Philippines we don't get that kind of outage....well unless a
> typhoon comes thru. But I was really talking about my "personal data
> center" in the USA.
>
>> And even if your UPS handles the power - what about your communications
>> link?
>>
>
> It is on the UPS as all the networking stuff. I the past 3 years my
> USA "personal data center" has been down at least 0 hours and the uptime
> has been 100%. :)
> So much for 5 nines. :)
>
Ye, in the end you have to balance the factors. What I like is being
able to directly edit the pages via SAMBA mounts, behind My
firewall..run any scripts I want, and have the hardware under my
control. I can simply cp Mysql databases between sites if I want..

I exchange flexibility, almost zero opportunity cost, probably better
security, and ease of maintenance for a slightly greater chance of
being offline longer, and obviously much lower bandwidth.

These are not high volume sites..they are small businesses with very
little traffic and very little in the way of large data objects. If they
WANT videos or suchlike, put in a link to a hosted server..

I am not recommending it as a one size fir all approach. Its just worthy
of consideration for small sites under a lot of development.

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