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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!sun630.bentley.com!usenet From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.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: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:16:27 -0400 Organization: Bentley Systems, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <324E92CB.6AF154C1@sullivan.bentley.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <3246D415.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923200853.12260C-100000@dyslexic.phoenix.net> <Dy91KF.IMA@interactive.net> <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <$oVmqBAydTTyEw9t@senator.demon.co.uk> <52lf8n$2ko@verdi.nethelp.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: sullivan.bentley.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.21 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:132428 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28220 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44241 Steinar Haug wrote: > > 10 machines could give you higher reliability than one machine. It will > *certainly* give you higher administration costs. Depends on what you need. If you need 100% of your services available at all times, then using ten machines would give you lower reliability than using one machine --unless you were using some sort of fail-over scheme that would allow for the still-working machines to fill in for the failed machine. If having less than 100% of your services available is better than having none of your services available, then, yes, ten machines would be a better solution. Mark