Funny,
We are using 4500's here and they haven't skipped a beat.
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:23:07PM -0700, Kevin Duffey wrote:
> Orion hardware?Hi,
>
> We had some disaster problems with IBMs NetFinity racks. We had to send all 5 back
>at various times. The HDs died, the systems overheated, etc. They looked nice in
>principal, but in reality they didn't hold up so well. We now use Dell servers which
>kick ass. IBM generally makes good hardware..but these 4000 racks were terrible. I
>think they didn't alot much space for heating. They are small..only 1.5 ru's and all.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hani Suleiman
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:26 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Orion hardware?
>
>
> I've almost convinced my company to go with Orion as our choice of application
>server (vs Dynamo, which is horrific). Now, the intended hardware is a bunch of IBM
>servers, dual pentium's with 1gb of ram, with an F5 load balancer in front. Has
>anyone experienced any issues with scalability given this hardware? The main concern
>voiced against Orion is that it isn't a big reliable company that can be held
>accountable, so I'm concerned on the level of support available. Has anyone had any
>negative experience here?
>
> Also, in terms of OS choice, is anyone happily running a high load site under
>linux?
>
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