Comments on: When you manage a server: DO and DON’Ts http://www.fchouse.com/archives/when-you-manage-a-server-do-and-donts/ Photoblogging our life from London! Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:17:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carlo http://www.fchouse.com/archives/when-you-manage-a-server-do-and-donts/comment-page-1/#comment-28280 Carlo Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:08:57 +0000 http://www.fchouse.com/?p=1079#comment-28280 Hi Jonah, I do not think to follow you completely (or at all)... What do you mean when you speak of "end-to-end IT service"? If I understand well, the reliability of multi tier application can play a DON'T role if the design of the system is faulty... so "DON'T use faulty design"? is this what you meant? Hi Jonah,
I do not think to follow you completely (or at all)…
What do you mean when you speak of “end-to-end IT service”?

If I understand well, the reliability of multi tier application can play a DON’T role if the design of the system is faulty… so “DON’T use faulty design”? is this what you meant?

]]> By: Jonah Paransky http://www.fchouse.com/archives/when-you-manage-a-server-do-and-donts/comment-page-1/#comment-28279 Jonah Paransky Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:03:27 +0000 http://www.fchouse.com/?p=1079#comment-28279 Carlo, great points. The one thing I would add is the importance of finding a way to test the change not only on a staging server, but also against the end to end IT service that the server supports. This can be accomplished it by building a comprehensive staging environment of the entire end-to-end IT service or investing in on of the emerging tools that can help provide an equivalent functionality. Often downtime caused by changes are not based on the impact to the individual server, but to a components that other pieces of a complex, multi-tier application rely upon in the infrastructure stack. -Jonah Paransky (www.stacksafe.com/blog) Carlo,
great points. The one thing I would add is the importance of finding a way to test the change not only on a staging server, but also against the end to end IT service that the server supports. This can be accomplished it by building a comprehensive staging environment of the entire end-to-end IT service or investing in on of the emerging tools that can help provide an equivalent functionality. Often downtime caused by changes are not based on the impact to the individual server, but to a components that other pieces of a complex, multi-tier application rely upon in the infrastructure stack.
-Jonah Paransky
(www.stacksafe.com/blog)

]]> By: IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Links List 3.14.08 http://www.fchouse.com/archives/when-you-manage-a-server-do-and-donts/comment-page-1/#comment-28237 IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Links List 3.14.08 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:23:00 +0000 http://www.fchouse.com/?p=1079#comment-28237 [...] gives a few tips on managing a server, including testing upgrades on a staging server. The tips listed were followed, resulting in [...] [...] gives a few tips on managing a server, including testing upgrades on a staging server. The tips listed were followed, resulting in [...]

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