[volunteergrid2-l] 5 nodes!

[Shawn Willden]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Kevan Carstensen <kevan at isnotajoke.com>wrote:
>
> I was initially planning on using hardware that I had sitting around as
> a node, which could then be accessed through my home connection. That
> doesn't really square with your uptime goals, though -- my home Internet
> connection doesn't have an SLA, nor is my hardware particularly capable
> of handling failures gracefully.


I think that's the case for most of us.  Don't overestimate the difficulty
of the uptime requirement.  95% uptime allows for 8 hours per week, or 1.5
days per month, or almost three weeks per year of downtime.  It's not a
particularly high bar, though it is one that doesn't allow you to simply
ignore a down server for a week or two until you get around to fixing it.
 That's why I chose that number, because it is one that can be met
relatively easy with cheap hardware on a home connection.

-- 
Shawn
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