Re: Advice please: Upgrade mail server or service contract?

[Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David -

> So the question is: Should I extend the service contract or get a new
> system?

I vote for the new system.  (Unless I have some specific reason to do 
otherwise, I contribute by referencing your Amazon Affiliate when I buy 
stuff through Amazon.com, regardless of whether what I am buying has 
anything to do with the iSeries or computers at all.)

Personally, any more I build and service my own systems.   The uptime on my 
Linux-based firewall/router and my Linux-based server is 448 days and some 
odd hours; which is since my last hardware upgrade of the two 
systems.  (The same number of days for both because the firewall/router got 
parts out of the server and the server got new.)  Of course my systems 
don't handle nearly the level of traffic as yours (but I suspect they could).

Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views
of my employer or anyone in their right mind.