It would be interesting to see an accurate estimates of price points. For
example, http://www.shanje.com/loadbalancing.shtml uses inexpensive rack
units for web/CF servers, about $1,000 each, and hosts over 13,000 domains
on each server. Shiloh's web farm provides over 99.9% uptime on websites.
So I wonder what the software/hardware costs are, NT vs Solaris, to achieve
the same reliability goal of 99.9%
best, paul
At 11:24 PM 7/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
>If I want to run a serious high-power site, I would go to Solaris, or maybe
>now Linux on Intel to get the most bag for the buck. Did I see someone who
>said 40 servers? I don't know about Linux with CF, but I know for a fact I
>can run a major e-commerce site on 4 Sun boxes with an external DB server.
>I don't know the price points where massive redundancy on the NT side takes
>over for the reliability of Solaris, but I think any argument on highly
>scalable sites needs to look at Unix, if not as its sole focus,.
>
>Chris Evans
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:08 PM
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>Subject: RE: High-Powered Scaling
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>Thanks for the compliments Gregory and Ron. I hope this helps.
>
>I'm trying to assemble a "white paper" on scalability and I can tell ya
>there are a TON of issues here. It's no wonder that Allaire hasn't
>published an extensive document on the subject. Hardware, software,
>application architecture, networking, database architecture, etc. are all
>crucial to a complete solution for your organization... and every solution
>is different... making it even harder to set a baseline.
>
>But I'll keep working on it. If anyone has comments or suggestions, please
>send them to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll try to include them (with
>your credit or anonymously if you prefer).
>
>--Doug
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregory Gooden (Annex) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:02 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: High-Powered Scaling
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>
>
>I was fortunate enough to catch Doug's presentation on Scalability at a CF
>user's group meeting in LA, and I'm damned glad I went. I really got a lot
>to chew on. :)
>
>Gregory
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:50 PM
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> > Subject: RE: High-Powered Scaling
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> > > Subject: High-Powered Scaling - Was "Milking Every Last Drop..."
> > >
> > > Here are my suggestions
> > > <big snip of awesome content>
> >
> > THANK YOU, Doug, for taking the time to share all that great
> > information
> > with us!
>
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