Wanna hear something funny. Apparently I didn't find the leak. The engine bay has a nice thin coat of diesel on it now :) View quoted note →

Time to go make a pizza :)

When I get more cash or it becomes required, I think i've found the ingredients required to make a solid HA storage solution. I've found this model from other (very expensive) services to be very reliable and cost effective in terms of hardware cost, space, and power.

More Mind Spew-age from Harold Spencer Jr.

Adventures in High Availability: HA iSCSI with DRBD, iSCSI, and Pacemaker

High availability for applications and physical machines is key to having services “appear” to never be down. With cloud computing, dep...

This is a good point that I think many miss to. Specifically on the economics of providing services. As my dad said in the bakery. "It cost me the same to make 1 donut as it cost to make 50 dozen." Same labor, same equipment, same material cost. When running infra, it cost the same to support 1 user as it does to support 10000 users (assuming power is included). Yes there plot-able chart to how this scales. It gets worse when you're involving hardware. It cost me the same to support 1 users as it does to support as much as a 10gb connection can handle. Give or take a couple 100 watts of power. View quoted note →