• Tritoch (3/3/2014)


    We do everything we can to keep our applications online. We avoid patches...

    I would much rather take a small amount of periodic planned downtime to patch than have a large amount of unplanned downtime when my unpatched systems get infected, compromised or crash due to a bug that should've been patched. Plus there are often optimizations that come from patching as well.

    Agreed. One of the data centers I worked did not keep patches up to date. then Slammer was released. Building systems with the near-monthly patch reboot in mind goes hand in hand with other HA requirements.