[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> > > > Okay, let me rephrase that:  How many thousands of individual
> > > > web servers can you run, without slowdowns, from a group of
> > > > Netras that cost the same as the z800?
> > >
> > > how much does a z800 cost?
> >
> > $375,000.
>
> See.  For that priceI don't give a shit how high the bandwidth is, what
> the back end disk i/o is, or any other junk.  Fact is, I can afford a
> bunch of Netras and a couple load balancers.
>
> Besides, for a grand total fo *4* websites, most current hardware is
> slightly overkill (were it not for tha Java server-side stuff).
> Plus, at all of 2Mb of bandwith, I don't need
> $huge_ass_fricken_machine...

We're talking about something significantly higher-end than you are.
We're not talking about 4 websites.  We're talking about several thousand
web *servers*, could be shared-data, but might not be.

Peace...  Sridhar