On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > I know the idea is to have very cheap boxes in clusters, but I wonder > > how much they're paying in shipping for replacing the cheap hardware. > Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS > strategy.
Yep, that's true. Shipping is cheap, it's customs that's expensive and time-consuming, and Akamai tends to avoid the kind of places where you have to deal with a lot of customs.
I'd note that the original poster didn't classify 'broken' or 'outage' or 'non-functioning'... just the end result: "replacement". So, is akamai doing some fancy SMART detection and seeing bad fans and replacing, seeing a bad cpu fan or disk or memory corruption and replacing, or are these hard box outages with no recourse but a complete immediate replacement? (just curious as they don't let us play with these pieces/parts :) )