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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!usenet From: "Tim Smith" <tzs@halcyon.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 29 Sep 1996 06:43:35 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <01bbadd0$b47219c0$8588b6cc@tzspc> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <3246D415.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923200853.12260C-100000@dyslexic.phoenix.net> <Dy91KF.IMA@interactive.net> <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blv-pm14-ip3.halcyon.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:132362 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28204 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44224 Trent Piepho <xyzzy@u.washington.edu> wrote in article <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu>... > >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. A 200 MHz Pentium Pro with 4.3 GB of disk and 64 MB of RAM is under $3500. Add two 9 GB drives for around $2.4K, or add four 4.3 GB drives for around $2.7K if you want more spindles and faster drives, and you are still well under $7K. --Tim Smith