Also, have we all forgotten about Groklaw already?

It's still a good idea to abstract away these services behind a standardized interface. This way switching from one service to another is just a matter of providing an alternative implementation to said interface.

Granted this approach requires a little foresight...something many companies seem to not have nowadays.

That's what I was wondering. Seems like a band-aid solution to an underlying problem.

PCEngines!

Man, I've been running my Linux firewall/router & AP's off these machines for years. They are rock solid.

Ugh.....I do unfortunately.