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

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote:
> I would lean toward leaving the system alone as long as you can,
> because the costs are falling.  But the key question is ... when do
> you anticipate having to upgrade for performance or reliability
> reasons?

Capacity isn't really a problem ... my main driver for this is that I 
want to upgrade on my own schedule, not one dictated to me by a 
catastrophic failure.

If the system is on maintenance, then I can count on getting it fixed 
fairly quickly.  If it's not on maintenance, then I either have to 
upgrade to a new system with downtime and the hassles of dealing with 
massive hardware changes.

If I upgrade before it fails, then I have the luxury of running parallel 
and verifying everything works well before pulling the trigger.

david