[Discuss] automatic daemon restarts

[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:14:10AM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> > My production server that costs me $10k/minute for downtime is actually not
> > one server, or located in one datacenter. If you're interested in solving
> > problems at scale, talk to me about Akamai, this is basically all we do all day.
> 
> Tru dat, but take away the exaggerated $10k/minute cost of an
> individual production server, and the point still stands, that the
> manual restart as security measure is a fallacy.  

Well, having used it to good effect myself in the past on two
occasions, I'm going to have to disagree.  I won't lie--there were
other ways this could have been handled just as effectively.  It
depends on what your needs are and how much effort you can afford to
spend.

The point is, this is not one-size-fits-all.

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