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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 30 Sep 1996 14:13:37 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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:In article <$oVmqBAydTTyEw9t@senator.demon.co.uk>,
:Gavin Estey <gavin@senator.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:>In article <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, Trent Piepho
:><xyzzy@u.washington.edu> writes
:>>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.
:>
:>--
:>Gavin Estey
:>Strange Creations
:>e-mail: gavin@senator.demon.co.uk
:>WWW: http://www.strangecreations.com/
Not cost effective. What you could serve out of 10 2G boxes another
person would be able to serve out of 2 10G boxes 400% cheaper. Reliability
is an issue, but not one deserving a 4x increase in cost in a heavily
competitive market!
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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