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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 25 Sep 1996 11:26:17 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <52b1c9$iih@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <3246D415.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923200853.12260C-100000@dyslexic.phoenix.net> <Dy91KF.IMA@interactive.net> <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131524 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27931 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44066 xyzzy@u.washington.edu (Trent Piepho) writes: >>: I picked up a Challenge-L 128Mb/2G for under $70k, gonna add a mirror >>: array to it and a second Ethernet. >> >>For $70k, you could buy 10 fully configured Pentium Pro 200mhz boxes >>that would (in aggregate) probably be able to service connections at a >>rate one or two orders of magnitude greater. >But how would you share the data between them? Unless you buy a RAID array >for each machine, you'll have to use NFS or something. If you factor in >20 gigs of drive for each ppro, you'll have a hard time buying 10. 20GB of fastish disk space is about 5000 pounds, 200MHz Pentium Pro with 128MB of ram and a 100MBPS ethernet card about 3000 pounds. So you could get 10 for about 80K pounds - and I assume prices are still lower in the US to make up the currency difference. David.