[olug] OT: shoot me

[Will Langford]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>wrote:

> I agree with Chris, if you can hookup with a msdn subscription/bizspark or
> whatever, I'd go with 2008, R2 just came out by the way.
> I know we've had some issues with DFS on 2003 Ent., thats why we use 2008
> for webfarms, it works well.
> I'll dig up some documentation whenever i get back to the office, I have to
> restore a server from a backup and provision a few servers at the DC asap.
>

Simple system that only runs a database publicly visible with no long
running queries.  Simple database at that.  Needs five nine's though....
with fully automagical fail over stuff.

A second matching server and a simple HA setup would seem the obvious
choice.  Being MS SQL on the 'public facing side' is a requirement for
simplicity of third party interfacing to it.

Why oh why is it continuing to exceedingly look like I'm gonna end up with
SQL Express being the forward facing part that passes stuff to a
simple-to-setup-HA backend ?  Keeping this to two physical machines is also
a requirement.

Brute forcing this with DRBD & Heartbeat under linux would take... 30min
tops to setup ? Not including initial sync time of course.

Might be time for another ciggy break heh

-Will