[misterhouse-users] Re: web page

[Ed K. <ed...@wr...>]

>         I knocked on the misterhouse.net door too.  Nobody home.  Must be on vacation.
>
Bruce is out of town. Maybe his server is down, which, if true, allows
me to say "I told you so!". You see, a while back, I was asking about
Watchdog timers, which will reboot critical servers after a preset
amount of time if they are not tickled by a monitoring process. I was
lambasted by several folks in the group, all with the same story - "Why
would you need this - Linux NEVER goes down. Mine's been running for xxx
days/years/decades!!! Those are only for Windoze boxes." Well, maybe
Linux doesn't die, but processes (like web servers) do, and if you're
running critical apps like HA, and your not near the box to kick it, you
need a Watchdog timer to do it for you. This is especially for internet
connected boxes, where denial of service attacks can take you out
quicker than a lightning bolt! So, I hope his site is down because he
took it down, otherwise "I told you so!".

- Ed K.