A taste of honey: the sweet way to defeat downtime

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Everybody should consider using clustering. Although it might take time, money and effort to get up and running, once there, you will certainly reap the rewards.

In 1998 Hewlett Packard attempted to gain column inches by launching its 'five nines' uptime guarantee, or 99.999 per cent availability. This provided IT managers with the satisfying knowledge th...

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