Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-02 Thread Simon_Wilcox
]Date 22:43:28 1 August 2000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Simon Wilcox/BASE/WilliamsLea) Fax to: Subject: Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:32:52PM -0700, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: [ .. snip .. ] Since this has potential

Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-02 Thread Erich L. Markert
I've been using a dual processor, PIII 400+ Mhz Dell PowerEdge server that has 512MB RAM 2 9GB SCSI drives running Redhat Linux, Apache, mod_perl, HTML::Embperl and it's been working like a champ. Price tag: $8000 Not to plug Dell but they have some really nice server offerings and now fully

Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-02 Thread Jauder Ho
22:43:28 1 August 2000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Simon Wilcox/BASE/WilliamsLea) Fax to: Subject: Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:32:52PM -0700, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: [ .. snip .. ] Since this has potential

Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-02 Thread Erich L. Markert
I can vouch for that. We had a site running some distance ed software. The *nix version ran like a champ and would stay up and running for months. The NT version? Would require pre-emptive reboots to try and prevent unscheduled system downtimes. Also, the server would just crap out without

Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: Hi, I'm not sure why, but someone asked me to review a bid they received for a server to run their site. That's where the $64,000 USD part comes from. Whew! This is not a commerce site (it's a .org), and unlikely to get slashdotted. 24/7 is

Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-01 Thread ___cliff rayman___
i am running a PII 350 w/128mg ram and SCSI-2 7200rpm harddrives. i put out as many at 12K page views a day, nothing compared to Ask at Valueclick, although my pages are kind of big - about 60K worth. all of my pages have dynamic content rendered with mod_perl and Embperl and I suppress browser

Re: [OT] The $64K question/server hardware

2000-08-01 Thread Ajit Deshpande
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:32:52PM -0700, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: [ .. snip .. ] Since this has potential for becoming another long thread with people posting their stories and some other people flaming for not doing things in a certain way, I have suggestions for this monster thread in the