On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Randy Bush wrote:

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The server network is better with 10 reliable well managed servers than with 100 marginal ones; in my opinion.....

well said. thank you. it was this that led me into this maze of twisty passages.

randy

While I agree with the statement, I take exception to any notion that _any_ service we provide would be "marginal." Thus far, my network has a higher uptime percentage than any carrier we interconnect with, period, the end. We planned, built and operate a regional exchange, including the route servers, that has been live 24/7 for 11 months. That is 0% downtime for the route-server platform and the exchange fabric. Teun, if for some reason you associated my unwillingness to piss away the initial hardware investment for the project as indicitive of someone without the wherewithall to provide efficient and reliable servive and have in your mind labeled me as such, you were sadly mistaken. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc