On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
This depends greatly on your scenario. Personally, I think that anyone who puts FS into production (i.e. in a place where it helps one make money) should *ALWAYS* have a backup/sandbox/test system for handling updates. If you are in a mission-critical scenario then it probably means that once you get it working you don't touch it unless you absolutely have to. That's where your test system comes in to play. Ideally you have the exact same hardware on your test system that you do in production. Then your test system can double as a warm standby.
Thanks for the advice, and also the awesome work you guys are doing. :) I, for one am more than happy with the 'latest is the best' philosophy.
Just my $.02, but I think that commodity hardware being so cheap these days that there's no excuse for a for-profit venture using FS (or any other software, for that matter) not to have a test system for mission-critical servers.
Hmmm, someday! -guru