Matt, a security consultant, has been tasked with increasing server fault tolerance and has been given no budget to accomplish his task. Which of the following can Matt implement to ensure servers will withstand hardware failure?
A.
Hardware load balancing
B.
RAID
C.
A cold site
D.
A host standby
So you will raid the office of your boss to get the budget and than fix the issue.
Good thinking.
(Yes, I’m still not a Robot)
The biggest problem with RAID is that it deals with hard drive failures, not hardware issues. RAID is preferable is they are only talking hard drives and cost. But in terms of hardware failures, RAIDing has a cost. It causes the hardware to work harder. There are a number of load balancing techniques that cost nothing. Moving half the company to different proxy servers. Using round robin and caching techniques with DNS–no cost. I hate the term hardware load balancing because it could mean that you had to purchase a new hardware device or that you are simply balancing the load of your hardware. Cold and Hot sites both cost more than a hardware load balancer. I would have to go with the “not a robot” on this one.