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From: ritz@onyx.interactive.net (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:12:16 GMT
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
: xyzzy@u.washington.edu (Trent Piepho) writes:
: >>: 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.
: 20GB of fastish disk space is about 5000 pounds, 200MHz Pentium Pro
: with 128MB of ram and a 100MBPS ethernet card about 3000 pounds. So
: you could get 10 for about 80K pounds - and I assume prices are still
: lower in the US to make up the currency difference.
Yep. Our typical machine, at this point, is a P166 with 128mb RAM,
8gb of fast/wide Barracuda running on a 100mbit FDDI network
serviced by a DEC Gigaswitch, plugged into redundant T3's to the
net. I'd say each machine costs roughly US$4k. To switch to PP200
boxes would only add another US$400 or so to the total cost of each
machine. To go from 8gb to 20gb on each box would add another US$3k
to the price of each machine. So I could have a PP200 with 128mb RAM,
100mbit FDDI interface, and 20gb of fast/wide 7200rpm storage for
roughly US$7000. Show me another platform that offers that kind of
bang for the buck.
I stand by my original statement.
Best regards,
Chris
p.s. We use BSDI 2.1 on most of our boxes, but I'm experimenting
with FreeBSD-current.
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