[smokeping-users] Re: Minimum HW/SW requirements

[Jeff Cotterman]

I agree...

We run mostly HP servers here...  And I have never had any problems with them
crahing cept hardware issues...

Of course our linux servers run circles around them, but our HP servers never
really die.  But I think one thing to remeber is, we never really do any serious
OS upgrades on our HP servers, where as our linux servers are our web/ftp
servers, so we do much more frequent upgrades to them, so that may also be a
reason as to why they may have some problems...

A classic case in point is our DNS/DHCP servers...   Two little linux machines
that really don't get touched much, and they have had zero problems...  I tend to
think that the machines that get the most touching, break the most...

Just my thoughts...

Jeff

Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> Yesterday PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
>
> > You think so?  I have the opportunity to possibly
> > purchase a SunFire 280 or 3 IBM Intel servers.  You're
> > telling me that there is basically no comparison, and
> > that I should probably go with the 3 IBMs and
> > put linux on them?
>
> Well we use only Sun Servers here and I feel quite save with this,
> performance is not everything ... our Sun Servers never crash (if
> they do, it is hardware and it has to be repaired) ...
>
> Its just, that if you are init for the speed, then I guess sun is
> not potimal ... if you are init for a combination of things like
> speed and reliability then sun is great ...
>
> cheers
> tobi
>
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