On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > >> Our servers tend to just run till they die. If we didn't need them we >> wouldn't have bought them in the first place. I suppose there are >> businesses with different processes that come and go, but I'm not sure >> that is desirable > > what proves you never done serious IT No, it means our servers run for years, > the goal of standby servers in case of virtualization is that > you know there may be load peaks from time to time but mostly > you don't need up 4 servers We design to handle a whole data center failure in only the time it takes for a new client connection. With/without systemd, nobody is going to wait for a new server to spin up. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com