On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:43 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen. I've
experienced a few. The
> original post was directed to a fellow who wants to run a home server on
The original post was by valent.turkovic and actually referred to a
document written by someone who'd decided Fedora was a poor choice for a
server, and invited comment.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. The post to which I originally responded
was from a fellow who wanted to run a home server on his desktop.
I would think that a home Linux user running a server controlling his
Internet connexion and maybe providing mail and http caching is fairly
common. While maybe not life-threatening, its sudden lack might be
pretty inconvenient.
Depending on the mood that my wife is in when her internet connection
gets severed, it could indeed be life threatening.
_Mine_ is running CentOS4 and is on a UPS (the UPS because used good
ones can be bought pretty cheaply at auction).
Mine are on UPSes as well (new ones aren't that expensive either).
Still, the wireless access point is in a different part of the house,
and isn't on a UPS. Fortunately, the wife gets vexed with the power
company on the occasions where that's a problem.
Dave