[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Thu Apr 11 18:23:46 CDT 2002


> > Is the clustering software and load-balancing software
> > included, too?
> >
> > Also, don't forget to include the costs of FC connections
> > and gigabit-Ethernet cards.
> 
> waaaaait a minute. gigabit ethernet cards? for a webserver? have you 
> been smoking crack??

When you've got a lot of servers running, you a lot of
bandwidth so they aren't all going down a shared 100M
pipe.  Remember, we are talking thousands of servers.
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Eric Dittman
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