As a System administrator of a *NIX network it is your responsibility to ensure that your *NIX machines are running in perfect condition and to see to it that valuable customers and transactions are not lost, by minimizing the down time. . . .
As a System administrator of a *NIX network it is your responsibility to ensure that your *NIX machines are running in perfect condition and to see to it that valuable customers and transactions are not lost, by minimizing the down time. This responsibility becomes even more pressurizing when we talk about today's scenario wherein smooth flow of high volume traffic is the need of the hour in most environments. It is a known fact that most big names in the business of E-Commerce hardware / software solutions, expect 99.99999 %(that's the five 9 concept) uptime.