this will probably be of interest for some of you guys here. :) -- ask bjoern hansen - <http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/> more than 70M impressions per day, <http://valueclick.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new mailing list: scalable (fwd) sorry to send it to many of you twice -- i just wanted to be sure to catch folks from the non-httpd side of apache. feel free to spread the notice to other folks you think may be interested. -dean ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:30:43 -0700 (PDT) From: dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new mailing list: scalable X-comment: visit http://arctic.org/~dean/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. hi, i'm promoting a new mailing list i've created: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is intended to discuss techniques and technologies for scaling internet services. the advent of internet applications is leading us into new areas of scale, and is driving an evolution of "server" technology. new ASPs (application service providers) are appearing regularly, and many of the hurdles of ASP acceptance are being knocked down. the field is still young enough to be shrouded in marketing hoopla, secrets, and wide-ranging promises which can obscure the good science and engineering that is occuring in many places. it is my hope that [EMAIL PROTECTED] will help provide signal amidst the noise. of specific value on this list are war stories regarding particular technologies: server hardware; storage devices; layer-N switches/routers; application servers; operating systems; language choices; architecture plans, and analyses. advocacy holy wars are not appreciated. choices of things such as operating system are dictated on a case-by-case basis, there is no single tool which solves all problems. subscribe by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -dean
