It's the poor man's stress test.  Fire up your site then mention it on 
slashdot... ;>

- Jeff

On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Cravens, Billy wrote:

> Last week, there was an "Ask Slashdot" question about
> managing/documenting web projects, and since the poster was using
> ColdFusion, a number of the posts mentioned Fusebox and got modded up
> pretty high.  That was the same day that I noticed the site down -
> perhaps this contributed to the hard drive failure.
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/20/215202&mode=thread
>
> ---
> Billy Cravens
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McCollough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:44 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise
>
> I don't recall fusebox.org getting slashdotted? Did it? When?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Cravens, Billy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent:        Monday, March 25, 2002 5:21 AM
>> To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject:     RE: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise
>>
>> I think it was down to the Slashdotting from the other day.  Must not
> be
>> on any heavy-duty hardware.
>>
>> ---
>> Billy Cravens
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan McCollough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:18 PM
>> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> Subject: RE: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise
>>
>> This be true. The depreciation on hardware is so fast these days you
> can
>> pick up some gear pretty much by hanging out by a dumpster. Oops, this
>> sounds like an fbcommunity thing now. And Steve started it! Well, now
>> that
>> its underway, the hearings can begin on why fusebox.org was down.
> We'll
>> need
>> to get the affidavits in the mail and have the Illuminati stand before
>> the
>> grand jury by the end of next week...
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:       Steve Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent:       Friday, March 22, 2002 10:13 AM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject:    Re: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise
>>>
>>> It has support for the big databases too. The clustering in
> enterprise
>>> isn't great because it's
>>> software based. You'll always get a slightly faster failover with a
>>> hardware solution. A little
>>> known fact is that you can get ultra inexpensive hardware load
>> balancers
>>> off of ebay. For a $1000
>>> you can find a excellent layer 7 balancer which can handle millions
> of
>>> hits a day, even handle
>>> geographic clusters.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>> My understanding is that the only real advantage of Enterprise
> over
>>>> Professional has to do with clustering and load balancing.  I'm
> sure
>>> there
>>>> are other more "trivial" differences, but I think that's the main
>> one.
>>>>
>>>> I'd guess Professional should suit your needs, given your
>> description of
>>>> the situation.
>>>>
>>>>  (Embedded     * * * * *
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                     Alexander
>>>>                     Ismail               To:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>                     <aismail1@pacb       cc:
>>>>                     ell.net>             Subject:     CF Server 5
>>> Professional vs. Enterprise
>>>>
>>>>                     03/22/2002
>>>>                     11:34 AM
>>>>                     Please respond
>>>>                     to fusebox
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We plan to move our site from a shared hosting environment to a
>>> dedicated
>>>> box.
>>>> Since we don't run a real high traffic site I am considering
> putting
>> CF
>>>> Server 5 and MS-SQL Server 2000 on the same box.
>>>>
>>>> Although I compared the specs of CF Server 5 Professional vs.
>> Enterprise
>>> I
>>>> can't figure out whether CF Server 5 Professional is sufficient
> for
>> my
>>>> needs
>>>> or not.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts and/or recommendations on this?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> PearlSoup.com - Building A Better World, One Story At A Time
>>>>
>>>> Alexander Ismail                         Phone: 415-759-8722
>>>> 945 Taraval St., #235                 Web: www.PearlSoup.com
>>>> San Francisco, CA 94116            Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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