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| Which of the following options would you rather have when running a server |
| Reliability (99.99% uptime) |
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41% |
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| Speed (100mbps backbone) |
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58% |
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| Content of the website |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Ease of running, updating, upgrading and installation of programs |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
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AbyssUnderground
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 Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: What would you choose? |
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Which ONE would you choose out of these options for running a server and why?
EDIT: Note: If you don't choose speed we can assume its about 25KB/s speed.
1. Reliability (99.99% uptime)
2. Speed (100mbps backbone)
3. Content of the website
4. Ease of running, updating, upgrading and installation of programs.
Please remember to state why you chose that option.
I chose reliability because its annoying to go to a site that is offline when you need it most.
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Arctic
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Speed, obviously reliability would be too. |
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p3
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Seppd & Reliability |
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AbyssUnderground
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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You can only vote for ONE!!!!
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richardyork
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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I voted speed because 9 times out of 10, if you have the speed, then you have the uptime (reliability). Of course, you need to take many things into consideration, so you cant really say much :-(
Theres my input anyway :-)
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MonkeyNation
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:56 am Post subject: |
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Speed, seconded by reliability.
I dont know about you, but id give a lot for a 150mbit leased line.
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Speed. No point having a great site that's available 99.9% of the time if by the time it's loaded your visitor has got bored and wandered off. |
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olly86
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:44 am Post subject: |
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You need good reliability, uptime, and to keep a visitor on your site good content.
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jlp09550
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| richardyork wrote: | | I voted speed because 9 times out of 10, if you have the speed, then you have the uptime (reliability) |
Well, I say that to have uptime, you need to decide if your keeping it online or not. Speed is not really a factor of keeping your server on. |
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| 24/1 mbit/s is enough for me, so I choose 99,99% uptime. |
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MonkeyNation
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| cmxflash wrote: | | 24/1 mbit/s is enough for me, so I choose 99,99% uptime. |
I assume you have DSL2?
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure. |
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jlp09550
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I have DSL and my speed is 2.9 Mbps download and 321.1 Kbps upload |
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richardyork
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:52 am Post subject: |
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At the end of the day, different people need different things. Some people can get the speed and not the reliability but some people can get the reliability but not the speed......etc Everything that has been mentioned here is valuable to keeping the clients interest in the site, but sometimes people just cant offer that, especially the home user!! There is probably more I could say on this subject but I'm drunk and I cant be bothered to write anymore ;-)
See you all tomorrow, when I'm sober!
LOL
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| I'm downloading about 3-4 mb (thats megabyte, not mbit) per sec. My uploadspeed is about 200 kb per sec. |
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AbyssUnderground
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I only get 100KB/s maximum from my Dads 2Mbps connection (capable of 250KB/s). 1Mbps is about 100KB/s anyway so if you get 200KB/s you are doing exceptionally well.
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