Servers that are supporting the critical operational function are advised to be Clustered and with High-Availability configuration. Fully redundant and NO single-point-of-failure .. Proven and stable O/S.. with 99.99999% uptime
There are various way to get something run remotely but give the control back to local.. err.. in other word.. get the display to local instead of remote… but process
something that for sure you can laugh out loud.. http://members.iinet.com.au/~bofh/ A lot of his experience is still happening till today. Yes.. end-user sometime too demanding.. but only one sysadmin to
