Why not consider clustering? Many lowend boxen put in a cluster is an awesome solution, especially if you have a lot of hardware yourself. Seriously consider this, a bit of studying should go into this as well. Not just opinoins of us(no im not saying the list isnt smart in all, we just shouldnt have a final say =] ). Justin Cook t.o. Staff mailto:jsc at themes.org http://kde.themes.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Yaron <jethro at freakzilla.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org