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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!xyzzy From: xyzzy@u.washington.edu (Trent Piepho) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 25 Sep 1996 07:16:32 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 25 Message-ID: <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <3246D415.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923200853.12260C-100000@dyslexic.phoenix.net> <Dy91KF.IMA@interactive.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: saul5.u.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: xyzzy Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131478 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27911 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44058 In article <Dy91KF.IMA@interactive.net>, Chris Mauritz <ritz@onyx.interactive.net> wrote: >In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Geoff Mohler <gemohler@phoenix.net> wrote: >: On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >: > *grin*. I think you really need to talk to BEST Internet, over at >: > http://www.best.net - they might even have a few Challenge machines to >: > sell at reasonable prices, having already tried this! :) > >: I picked up a Challenge-L 128Mb/2G for under $70k, gonna add a mirror >: array to it and a second Ethernet. > >For $70k, you could buy 10 fully configured Pentium Pro 200mhz boxes >that would (in aggregate) probably be able to service connections at a >rate one or two orders of magnitude greater. But how would you share the data between them? Unless you buy a RAID array for each machine, you'll have to use NFS or something. If you factor in 20 gigs of drive for each ppro, you'll have a hard time buying 10. -- |Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens \ on a quest, meaning, reason | |came to be, how it begun \ all alone in the family of the sun | |curiosity teasing everyone \ on our home, third stone from the sun. | |Trent Piepho (xyzzy@u.washington.edu) -- Metallica |