Hi, On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > Don't tell me that I can get a Sun E250, with that kind of disk > and memory for $3500. :P No, you can't, but that machine will not really come close to the same performance as an E250 with Solaris on it. You can get a 2U rackmountable Ultra10 (with SCSI, not IDE) for <$3500. In fact I think it's <$2500. Sun hardware/software makes a lot of sense ESPECIALLY since you want stability. Linux has come a LONG way since it's started, but it's still not Solaris (; and I won't even start comparing Intel to Sun hardware. But, once again, if you don't expect to be taking a lot of heat right from the start, Linux on a midrange Intel box should do fine. I had a 166MHz Pentium box running a webserver serving >1,000,000 hits/month, including dynamic stuff (no DB though). You might want to consider getting a whole bunch of 'low end' boxes and rolling your own load balancer/roundrobin DNS. -Yaron -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org