Friends, you guys bring me tears of joy for using technology right! :-D
Now, who will port ZeroMQ for us? On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mark Talluto <use...@canelasoftware.com>wrote: > On Aug 4, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > I've been experimenting with spidering, data mining, and analytics, and > like any processor-intensive tasks it would never occur to me to put them on > a shared host. > > > > Like many hosts, the one I'm using offers dedicated servers for less than > $70/mo, but being a cheapskate I've gone one step further during this > experimental phase: I bought a nettop off Ebay for just $150, set it up > with Ubuntu and Rev, and that does all the heavy lifting 24/7, posting only > the output from those process to my servers periodically as needed. > > > > I never run into the CPU cycle limits most hosts have on their servers, > and I don't even slow down my own web server from its tasks of serving pages > to my visitors and handling their purchases. > > > > When the workflow expands to required tighter integration between the > processing and the output, I can move the system from my office to a > dedicated server with multiple redundant fat-pipe connections for just a few > bucks a month. > > > > There are a million ways to create robust scalable infrastructures to > handle any load. Many are cheap and easy to do, and for most of those tasks > you can do them all in one fun language. > > We have been using this technique for years. We even posted the > application we use to do this task in RevNet. I believe I need to update > that file now that I think of it. But in short, we use our ISP to gather > orders. Our client software sends a request for a key. Our local computer > in the lab just pings the directory on the ISP every 4 seconds and downloads > all the orders in that given directory. The heavy lifting and database work > is done on a computer in the lab. The key is then sent back up to the ISP > where the client computer is checking in for the result of that work every 4 > seconds. The whole thing works out nicely and we keep our CPU usage low. > > > Best regards, > > Mark Talluto > http://www.canelasoftware.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution