Michael Hyman wrote:
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
