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RAID is not a backup. Neither is replication.
RAID survives a failed disk. Replication survives a failed machine. Neither survives deleting the wrong directory.
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Notes from the work.
Occasional posts about how this is actually done. No announcements, no industry news, nothing written to rank for a search term.
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Most email problems are DNS problems
When mail stops arriving, the mail server is rarely the thing that broke. Three records decide whether you are believed.
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What "managed" should actually mean
The word describes everything from a fully operated system to a provider who installed the operating system once and will answer an email if it catches fire.
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The cheapest server is rarely the cheapest server
A server advertised at €8 a month costs €8 a month. That is not the same as what running your system on it costs.
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Why boring technology is often the right technology
New technology is fun. Production systems are not supposed to be fun. What a mature technology has accumulated does not show up in a feature comparison.
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How much server do you actually need?
Shared, virtual, dedicated, private cloud. The list looks like small, medium, large and enormous. That is not what separates them.
Tell us what you are trying to run.
Describe the workload or the system you have in mind and we will tell you what it needs, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it.