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Re: trollage (Re: Akamai server reliability)
- From: Christopher L. Morrow
- Date: Mon Nov 28 14:34:17 2005
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > > I know the idea is to have very cheap boxes in clusters, but I wonder
> > > how much they're paying in shipping for replacing the cheap hardware.
> > Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS
> > strategy.
>
> Yep, that's true. Shipping is cheap, it's customs that's expensive and
> time-consuming, and Akamai tends to avoid the kind of places where you
> have to deal with a lot of customs.
I'd note that the original poster didn't classify 'broken' or 'outage' or
'non-functioning'... just the end result: "replacement".
So, is akamai doing some fancy SMART detection and seeing bad fans and
replacing, seeing a bad cpu fan or disk or memory corruption and
replacing, or are these hard box outages with no recourse but a complete
immediate replacement?
(just curious as they don't let us play with these pieces/parts :) )
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