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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 29 Sep 1996 09:24:39 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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In-reply-to: Gavin Estey's message of Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:34:26 +0100
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[Gavin Estey]

|  >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.
|  
|  Why would you want 20 gig on just one machine. You could have 10
|  machines each with serving 2 gig.

10 machines could give you higher reliability than one machine. It will
*certainly* give you higher administration costs.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no