
The total cost is not only measured in money, but also in time and complexity.
An HA network takes longer to implement, results in more maintenance work, takes
longer to gain an understanding of, and due to increased complexity, raises the risks
of human error, thus countering your initial goal.
Just as one business may have more reliance on their Internet connection, a par-
ticular server, or other piece of their infrastructure, another might be completely
indifferent to the uptime of the same resource.This logic comes to bear in how we
implement HA. HA can be anything from a spare system in a closet, to a fully
meshed, fully redundant network infrastr ...