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From: Gavin Estey <gavin@senator.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:34:26 +0100
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In article <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, Trent Piepho
<xyzzy@u.washington.edu> writes
>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.

Why would you want 20 gig on just one machine. You could have 10
machines each with serving 2 gig.

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Gavin Estey
Strange Creations
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