On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:12:10PM -0800, Joshua Chamas wrote:
>
> It would likely begin with our first cluster built out in
> California in the next year - year + 1/2, and grow on from
> there. Many thanks for your help.
Cool. Best of luck.
> 1. How many dynamic web requests do you serve per month?
> [ ] up to 10M pages
> [x] 10M - 100M pages
> [ ] 100M - 1G pages
> [ ] more than 1 gig pages
>
> 2. How many servers do you have handling requests, disregarding
> network infrastructure.
> [x] 1 - 5
> [ ] 6 - 10
> [ ] 11 - 20
> [ ] 20 - 50
> [ ] 50+
>
> 3. Do you out source ... ( if only willing to in next year, mark with [W] )
> [w] data center facilities like Exodus ( bandwidth, security,
> fire suppression, cooling )
> [w] networking equipment ( LAN routing, switches, firewalls,
> web cluster front ends like alteons, cache servers )
> [w] server hardware
> [w] server software management
> [w] security ( firewalls, network monitoring, host monitoring )
> [w] backups ( tape, network share, rotating off site storage )
> [ ] file shares ( NFS, Samba space )
> [ ] high volume email
> [ ] high volume DNS
> [w] network service monitoring
> [w] geographically distributed DNS
> [ ] streaming media, content distribution, like Akamai
> [ ] network service load testing
>
> 4. What is your web production budget per month?
> [ ] up to $5,000
> [ ] $5,000 - $10,000
> [ ] $10,000 - $20,000
> [ ] $20,000 - $50,000
> [x] over $50,000
>
> 5. Which web deployment issues are most important to your business?
> [ ] cost
> [x] scalability
> [ ] fault tolerance, under 99.99% downtime
> [ ] time to market
> [ ] physical access to hardware & data
> [x] network engineering expertise
> [ ] web engineering expertise
>
> 6. Would you be willing to out source the above services to facilities in:
> [ ] Los Angeles, CA
> [ ] San Francisco, CA
> [ ] San Diego, CA
> [x] New York, NY
> [ ] Austin, TX
> [ ] Seattle, WA
> [x] London
> [x] Amsterdam
> [x] Paris
> [x] Pittsburgh, PA :-)
>
> 7. What OS's do you run in web production?
> [x] Linux
> [ ] Solaris
> [ ] WinNT / Win2000
> [x] *BSD
> [ ] Other
> [x] Could you switch?
>
> 8. Are you currently a ...
> [x] Engineer / Sysadmin / Developer
> [x] Manager
> [x] Consultant
>
> 9. What databases are you using?
> [x] MySQL
> [x] Oracle
> [ ] Sybase
> [x] PostgreSQL
> [ ] Informix
> [ ] DB2
> [ ] Could you switch?
>
> 10. What does your database require:
> [x] Speed
> [x] Transactions
> [ ] Clustering / Fault Tolerance
> [ ] Clustering / Scalability
> [ ] Database logic, i.e. triggers, procedures
> [ ] Database integrity, i.e. referential constraints
>
> 11. What are your web development languages?
> [x] Perl
> [ ] Java
> [x] C/C++
> [ ] Python
> [ ] Other
