Torsdag 9. august 2012 20.47.50 skrev Stan Hoeppner:
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To be quite frank, based upon the level of technical acumen you've demonstrated here, and the general financial position Greece finds itself in, and the fact you're a public institution, it seems you're a much better candidate for a Gmail hosted infrastructure than a VPS infrastructure with some manner of ad hoc software only HA measures bolted on, which is all you can do with VPS servers--you don't control the storage.
If they are a public institution, then they may be prohibited from hosting on Google, simply because possibly sensitive data would then be hosted in another country.
As for HA I agree with Stan in that it is both very expensive and difficult to do right, but I would also ask if do you *really* need it?
Arne
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