FCOL, why would ANYONE pay TRIPLE the price of the server itself for
redundancy that can be had much less? Even $2000 per server is
exorbitant, making it $4000 to protect two servers....about on price par
(i.e. the stratosphere) with Vinca's product.
I re-iterate, a $200 disk drive in RAID/1 mirror is almost as effective,
and certainly a more COST-effective solution than any content replicator on
the market -- Octopus, Vinca, or otherwise.... (And for IIS servers, the
replication is built-in!).
At 10:14 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>5 figures? I'd like to be your reseller <g>
>
>It's less than $2k per server RETAIL for the automated switch-over solution.
>They have less expensive versions which require some admin intervention.
>
>Get your facts straight before you slam a product on the list.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff Woods [mailto:jwoods@delta.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 9:52 AM
>> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>> Subject: RE: NT Server Mirroring
>>
>>
>> At 08:50 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>> >Try Octopus or....Bugger, I can't remember the other one that was good.
>>
>> Octopus was a FIVE FIGURE price tag the last time I looked into it. WAY
>> out of line for a product like that.
>>
>> What's wrong with round-robin DNS and IIS 4.0's content replication?
>> Sure, in a failure, you have to modify the DNS to eliminate hits to the
>> dead server, but that's FREE....
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