Setting your email client (MS-Outlook, Windows mail, Thunderbird, etc.) to check email too often is abuse. Sometimes it’s accidental abuse. It’s common for unstable programs like Microsoft Outlook to become corrupted and go wild, checking incessantly. Recently we implemented a system to track (among many other things) email logins. When too many logins to a […]
Hard Drive Failure !
100% uptime is impossible. All we can do is get close. Last week 2 hard disks failed (simultaneously !) in node 2 of cluster 2. Besides being backed up in real time on a second cluster node, each node is running RAID-5 with hot swap drives. A single drive can fail and be replaced with […]