Redundancy means having a spare; but a spare for what? Everything. Every single part, from motherboard to chassis, power supply to network cable, disk space to throughput, should have at least one piece of excess equipment or capacity available for immediate use. Let's go through as many of these as we can imagine, before we do anything that might depend on something we bought.
Planning for redundancy
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