Best practice for network configuration

[Anthony de Boer]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> (On the other hand, VMs also make it practical to take that mouldering
> old box running a long-out-of-support version of Mandrake with an
> unenumerated set of services that nobody knows much about, and that
> they're all too scared to touch, and keep it running.)

Although you _can_ pull a "simple" P2V migration, and escape from dusty
failing hardware, or the need to free up the power or space it was using
in the datacentre, having a crufty old "scared to touch it" server is an
invitation to a really long downtime when something eventually breaks and
you don't have it running as a reference for how it's supposed to work
anymore.  Periodically shifting a service to a fresh node is a way of
proving you understand that service and that you can actually support it.

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Anthony de Boer
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