> > of network connections failing. Once we start getting more users, this
> > will all be redundant. The power supplies are redundant (triple setup)
> > harddrives are redundant, redundant UPS's, etc. etc..
> 
> I have machines worth half a million bucks that are supposed to be
> "all redundant", and break in surprising ways.  Don't rely on this
> promise for 5 9s.

Or, NOT break in surprising ways. Outright broken is easy, but I've not
seen anything for "it just became slow" type failover ;)


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