[CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Wed Jun 29 20:43:09 UTC 2011
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

Am 29.06.2011 um 22:26 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:

> On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
>> If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have  
>> IPMI
>> on board.
>
> Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define
> server by purpose and not specifications. So very often they buy
> servers based on budget and that it's good enough to run most
> applications for X users. Unfortunately, very often I'm the one who
> ends up managing these simply because our applications run on them.
>


I'd go for a power-switch then.
Less logic.

http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Computers-Networking-/58058/i.html?_nkw=remote+power+switch&_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282
http://www.amazon.com/NP-0801D-Switchable-manufactured-Temperature-Monitoring/dp/B002WLQ6ZI



>> You can buy add-on PCI-cards for OOB-management, though.
>
> Thanks for the information, although unless they are really cheap...



Define "cheap".
I live and work in 2011's 6th most expensive city of the world....

Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O- 
constrained anyway, virtualization won't help.
Everything will just be even slower.