[ipac] running other apps on HIP box

[Vern Mastel]

At 08:51 AM 8/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>I'd like to know if any of you are running instances (not related to HIP, 
>of course) either/or IIS or MS SQL Server on the same box as your 
>Information Portal without interference with HIP. We're on 3.06 on a 
>Windows 2003 Server. When we brought up HIP 2.x several years ago I think 
>I asked this question and got several positive responses saying there were 
>no interference or performance degradation issues at that time. But things 
>may have changed since then...  Thanks.

While various apps may happily coexist on a single server, there are other 
significant issues with this.

You have a single point of failure for x number of services. If the server 
goes down, the screaming gets really loud, really fast.

When you do a major change or reboot, it will affect all services running 
on that box. This severely restricts what you can do and when you can do 
it. I hate making changes at 3am.

I am a big believer in spreading the risk around. Doesn't cost that much 
more and lets me sleep better.


Vern Mastel, Technology Co-ordinator, Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library
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