* Mark T. Ganzer: > Note that I an not answering in any sort of "official" capacity....but > I will instead ask this for your consideration: Do servers in "test, > stage, development, or any other environment" really need to have the > same environmental, power and connectivity requirements that > "production" servers have?
Depends on the process. If you can push to production without pushing to stage first, then stage and production need the same service level.