19 May
2004
19 May
'04
6:14 p.m.
On Tue, 18 May 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
Hour? Don't be so generous. At ANS you would be in
serious hot water for
any maintenance involving an outage that lasted more than about a minute,
scheduled or not. At one point I was told how much AOL lost per minute per
down core router, and it was pretty impressive.
This was five years ago. I am sure it is even "worse" now.
My customers
are ready to hang me if their systems drop out for
more than, say, half an hour *scheduled* time, or 5-10 mins
unscheduled. So, they invest in lots of redundancy, which
helps.
--f