I am not familiar with clustering.... Would you run a mod_perl based web site on a cluster? Isn't the point of a cluster to make a group of machines appear to be one? If so, how is that beneficial for web services?
Thanks...Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dzuy Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Modperl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: Re: Server questions > I always say, buy the best you can afford. > Then again, consider how many Linux PC you can have for the price of the Sun. > Run those PCs in a web farm or cluster and that Sun can't match the processing > power and speed. > > Michael Hyman wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I have a dilemma that I need input on. > > > > If you were to buy machines to be used as dedicated web servers, which would > > you go with? > > > > Option 1. A Sun SunFire 280R with 2 Ultra 3 processors and 4GB RAM. Run > > Solaris 9 > > > > Option 2. PC-server with 2 ~2.8GHZ Xeon processors and 8GB RAM. Run Linux > > > > The prices are worlds apart and I think I will get more bang for the buck > > with PC. > > > > The systems will connect to an Oracle server, via SQL*Net and server both > > dynamic and static content along with providing download files up to 1GB in > > size. The files will be stored locally. > > > > What I want to understand is which machine will be faster, be able to handle > > more peak loading, have a longer lifespan yet be upgradeable for a > > reasonable price. > > > > In the benchmarking we have done, we run out of Ram before CPU using Apache > > 1.3.27 and Mod_perl, so we will heavily load the machines with RAM. > > > > I have years of experience with Solaris and SunOS, and little with Linux, > > but the learning curve seems small and easily handled. It seems to me that > > Linux is more customizable than Solaris, but then Solaris comes pretty well > > tuned and does not always need much tweaking. > > > > Apache and all of our software components support both Solaris and Linux, so > > we can go either way as far as that goes. > > > > I think it comes down to a simple formula of which option gets us the most > > peak and sustained performance for the least amount of money. > > > > So, I am looking for some input as to which way you might go in my > > positions. > > > > Thanks in advance for the help!! > > > > Regards...Michael > > > > > > > > > > >
