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From: paigen@forte.heathen.com (David Paigen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 2 Oct 1996 09:46:48 -0700
Organization: Forte Recreations
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In article <52rkhe$d62@library.clarkson.edu>,
Mark Komarinski <komarimf@craft.clarkson.edu> wrote:
>Matthew Dillon (dillon@best.com) wrote:
>: :In article <$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.
>:
>: 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!
>
>Ha ha ha ha ha ha bwah! bwah! ha ha ha. Oh sorry. This is just *way* too
>funny.
>
>Try running something that hits the hard drive *a lot* and see your
>performance go through the floor. (Hint: try running a news server)
>
>Cost-effectiveness isn't all that helpful when your customers are waiting for
>I/O.
>
>Now, what business *were* you in?
>
>-Mark
Actually, Mark, Matt is the head sysad/techie at a large ISP in
the Bay Area. I think Best has something like 10,000 customers
now. I can assure you that Matt knows a lot about running a news
server.
And, like the chess master, that you don't know who he is
suggests that he probably knows more about running unix servers
than you do.
-David
--
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