A Sun box running Solaris (with that kind of power) will cost me much more than what I can afford. That box is only $3500, which will of course go down over a couple of months. Don't tell me that I can get a Sun E250, with that kind of disk and memory for $3500. :P The reason why I'm going with that machine is that I want both expandability (if I need it), plus reliablitity. If the site gets big, I don't want to be down for 3 days because of a hardware failure. :( BTW, /. has I believe, 6 boxes (that was one year ago), with a load balancer. Certainly a lot more than I have. :P Nick jethro at freakzilla.com, on 09/19/2000 03:33:10 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF cc: Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations Hi, On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > Greetings, all, I'm looking to build a server for an e-commerce > company that I'm thinking about starting up. Sadly, as I don't > have much experience running Linux on "high-end" machines, Sun. Sparc. Solaris. -Yaron -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org