I am not a server-side person, so maybe some of you who are, can help me.
In recent posts, and other times in past posts, people have dismissed
Apple's Xserve as not ready for prime time as far as servers go.
But, I have heard that Apple boxes (pre-Xserve) have been used for years
as servers in Universities, and places like Ford, and some others
This confuses me -- does Apple know something that others don't, or vice
versa?
One comment was that SCSI interface to hard drives is better than ATA
IDE interface.
Why?
Others said that they would not consider hardware for a server unless it
had RAID.
Why?
I can see the desirability of RAID, but:
Is RAID necessary for an Application Sever, like JRun?
Is RAID necessary for an Web application Sever, like CFMX?
Is RAID necessary for an Web Sever, like Apache?
Is RAID necessary for a Database Server, like MS-SQL?
Do all of the above have the ability of deploying on or taking advantage
of a RAID?
Do RAIDs normally go in the same box as the server(s) or they just a
separate rack-mount component?
If separate, how do RAIDs interconnect with the other rack-mount boxes?
Finally, what would be the configuration of a good, reliable Web Hosting
environment that included all the above servers and RAID, look like?
TIA
Dick
TIA
Dick
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