On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 04:51 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
An Metet wrote:
Havenco's talked for a while about metastasizing, putting servers in a bunch of places for reliable fast performance for non-critical data and mainly keeping the critical database parts There are persistent rumors that Havenco does not really host anything on the platform, all bits are on dry land with VPN pipes to the platform, so that it looks off-shore hosted. In other words, the platform is a decoy, storage-wise.
Server hosting is now a boring, commodity business. You needs some marketing ploy to get mindshare from potential customers.
The kind of people who decide where their company's servers are to be hosted are often the kind of people who used to make plastic models of
No, the kind of people who decide where a company's servers are going to be hosted are often the same people who write the check for that service--the bean counters. With input from Bus-dev and Manglment.
military hardware when they were kids. Who have coffee-table books about planes with lots of pointy bits. Maybe even ones who read Bruce Sterling novels. They also like to think that their data is Really Important.
And no, I don't have coffee table books. And yes, my data is important. It helps generate my pay-check (not that I would use Havenco for a colo, my data is important, but we don't have that threat model). -- "Remember, half-measures can be very effective if all you deal with are half-wits."--Chris Klein