Looks like I’ll be upgrading Infosec.exchange and Infosec.space at 1500UTC on Thursday to fix a security vulnerability. It may not involve any downtime but we’ll see
@jerry a load balanced cluster would avoid this issue - for small biz it is very attainable and desirable, the issue for your situation comes down to bandwidth. If you had physical access to your machines you would have more reliability and security ostensibly - power outages may be the exception even with a few ups. Power for dc is more reliable and they probably have multi homing/peering agreements so the bandwidth is more reliable and you probably do save quite a bit on elec costs too. Overall serving up from a business or home is getting there and can afford some advantages like no downtime in theory - five nines is tough to achieve anywhere. what are your thoughts on this for smb sector - they may want to have both, maybe you could you talk about some of these issues and total costs at some point in the future #rent to pwn#pivot tables #replication
@jerry Loved hearing your thoughts on the Crying Out Cloud podcast about the different approaches to patching (immediate disclosure vs scheduled patching veiled in secrecy). The host mentioned that another guest came armed with data on which approach is better. Did she share with you more details? I'd love to know more what the data says which approach is better.
@idmcissp thanks. I don’t think I ever saw additional data from them. I think all the approaches have issues. I like this one because it’s a bunch of volunteers, rather than employees, who need to schedule their time around the release.
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