On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Howard, > > On 1/23/14, 11:31 PM, Howard W. Smith, Jr. wrote: > > Instead of downloading Linux and trying it out, on my own, I just > > decided to stay with Windows. it just works (for me). > > I'm honestly glad to hear that you are having a good experience with it. > > Do you manage a lot of machines, or just one or two? Just 2 servers for now. > Until recently, > the *NIX world didn't have great (maybe just inexpensive/free) > cluster-management utilities like Puppet. I believe Windows had that > capability (e.g. Tivoli) much earlier, though I think it was initially > aimed at administering fleets of workstations, not servers. Extending > that capability to manage servers was probably trivial. > > >> I hope things have changed, but everyone I ever knew that ran > >> Windows Server OSs in production had scheduled rolling-reboots of > >> their servers because things just tended to "work" when they did > >> that. Otherwise, stuff would fail with some regularity (like > >> every 3 days). It's not clear to be whether restarting the OS or > >> restarting the application did the trick -- as we all know, most > >> Tomcat problems are actually webapp problems. In all my time > >> working with Linux servers, I've never had to resort to such > >> foolishness, nor has anyone else I have known. I've had servers > >> running for over a year without a reboot. (They usually get a > >> reboot for certain software upgrades, so years-running servers > >> don't really exist... or shouldn't). > > > > > > I have seen posts on this list about people experiencing issues > > with Windows updates and their tomcat/database not starting or > > shutting down successfully (or as expected)... i do not experience > > these things...at all. Yes, I did send several emails to the tomee > > list, asking why did my tomee/tomcat server restart at night around > > 3am. I, then, learned it was the automatic Windows updates that I > > configured. So, after I learned that it was the automatic updates > > and that my app shutdown properly and restarted automatically > > (since I configured the tomcat/tomee service to start, > > automatically on/after boot), and no database corruption and no > > errors in the log. My Java EE app and tomcat/tomee shuts down and > > restarts gracefully inspite/through-it all. > > Great! I wish you the best of luck. > Thanks. At the moment, I don't have a need for cluster management, because the app performs really well, but I'm hoping to refactor the app (quite) a bit, so I can market the app to other businesses. After all that, i may need to consider cluster management, more servers etc. Also, some day, I may consider migrating to Linux. On the to-do list when I have bandwidth to do so. > > - -chris > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJS4pehAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYrMAQAJH9Jyz6V1C2Cx913B//NdKI > rzSZOgBDRMLwi3eORY/cE5FJ0bW+5khP9BryIJ/AeHxY4zDyMgx8ICJot/wtI1QI > Ru2hdjr+YMjE4TZmtpI9khBgKwb5HKJ7q27RQaxgN08BzH/t0tPQOmrIxO0+Z1lO > mxiEw7DomEG0Xbsv4u2oAlu8GlBYOMWZ5AC4a/ag1u2k65kS/JEneLYSBNepuMlJ > aIRfd4WUE+qjoykHo9uSR6XLaJEj5igozuCCrCcIL7u5NuBzeH3Gc56GGnV0V9Ye > Qygpr+T0j6MS+Yza92ybng7g7QcKB6lh5maMYalnj/G/bU2I1Q4mcBtZsxsrevin > NB5QJgvbZ+wZJeWQMH5h92v//zh0c8r0WZrVTF81ZYxXYo8HAwRFagKzY6qBxBeS > njnXim86JBooPW1JhxYalrNgKV1pK7MxfTNkfvmK18L3ALMhf5A2qhd8Q3BIsWOQ > Yi6t4JUlOGM32/3NcYcIT6/rYdIEZLOv9VEabV5WvcMQnq++ViUHjV64hWlknvCB > hoRHN45ipj51vC6VRY6nq/FZ+L5gIWzb9q719sVGjwfLiFkF63biVppwYO5adWD+ > pubXRs7Toxd1uYGM0bi3ruq/dL9B6m9EzIKN6nZsW4wrTWIvVNU/i0IWoNXHffJw > ygFownq0oWKSG86riRfZ > =6Aq+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
