I'm not questioning shanje's hosting prowess. Indeed, what they've
developed is extremely admirable. I just find it difficult to believe,
actually impossible to believe that an NT solution which puts the traffic
of 13,000 web sites on each and every machine is the best way, and I doubt
that's what's going on. they probably have some UNIX mixed in, or at least
have small clusters for portions of the domain(s) traffic - at least in
this way they could segment the database traffic.
I could be wrong, but instead of us arguing about it, I'd love to hear from
shanje.
I thought that we were talking about $1000 servers. What shanje is doing,
if I understand it correctly, with regards to the server purchases they
make, makes quite a lot of sense.
You don't need dual power supplies, raid drives, etc. when you have a LOT
of load balanced machines; if one blows up, you pull it out and fix it. If
you need a machine for some other purpose, you yank it from the web
farm. Instead of pouring dough into one big box, pour smaller amounts into
a bunch of little ones.
However, it's misleading to say that this solution can be had with a $1000
server and expect it to be taken at face value. Because you need multiple
hosts to maintain the uptime that you would get with one really slick dell
poweredge, the cost savings is not what it looks like - you need more than
one $1000 machine.
The savings comes down to the fact that if you build your own, or
preferably hook up with a company like telenet, you won't pay for the name
"Dell", which adds about 20% to the price tag.
j
At 11:06 AM 7/27/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>IP-LESS domains might help, dont ya think?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: !jeff! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > On top of everything you said, I don't believe an OS can support
> > 13,000 IP
> > addresses, therefore they cannot support that many virtual domains on a
> > single host. I think there was probably a typo in the original post.
> >
> > j
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