Just stating that AOL runs its entire operation using 30 servers running AOLServer is the kind of information that IMO would impress new potential AS users enough to try it. It instantly changes AS from an experimental, weird, "I never heard of it" web server, to something with clout. I'd think it'd be much easier to convince your boss to give AS technology a shot with some hard, factual information about AOL's use of the server to run its operation, for example, how many hits per day/server, images per day/server, max hits in a 1-minute period, typical system configs to achieve these, typical system loads, etc.
As a business owner myself, I definitely understand the flip side of this: maybe AOL doesn't want its competitors to know how it leverages technology to its advantage. That's a very reasonable position also. Jim > > Dudes, this is what people are looking for, at least the ones which > > have a life. I don't, so the current AOLserver project agrees with me > > just fine. Again, the big silent voice of experience is AOL. > > Lets let the voice be a little less silent, then: > > Buy millions of dollars worth of hardware. Cluster the hell out of > your infrastructure. Create highly specialized installations of > AOLserver to solve specific problems, and couple these systems > together to produce functionality whose sum is greater than its > parts. Do this through developing customized modules to extend > AOLserver's functionality to these specific problems. > > The problem is that while AOL runs one site across a farm of 30+ > machines, the majority of non-AOL users of AOLserver are trying to run > 30+ sites on ONE machine. AOL's advice and wisdom in the arena of > architecting, developing and operating sites with AOLserver is generally > not applicable since you (plural) won't be able to follow the advice. > (If you can, read the previous paragraph -- that's the advice in a > nutshell.) > > > Until we get a good explanation of _exactly why and how_ AOL uses > > AOLserver, I doubt any other reasonable sized enterprise would risk > > using this technology. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
