> I guess i'm pretty ignorant about big expensive servers. Is the
> 450 really that much faster than say a few Dual PIII's? I guess if I can
> buy 10 Dual PIII for the price of one 450, I'd have a pretty hard time
> buying the 450. I feel like no matter how big a server I buy, I will
> eventually outgrow it. I like the SETI example of using a bunch of little
> bitty computers around the world to accomplish what a few huge mainframes
> can't.
The SETI example works fine when you can partition your problem space
into pieces and let each piece work independently. Most databases don't
split up nicely like that, unless you want to put customers A-H on one
machine.
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