Please... may I envy you?
When I was at Fayetteville State U. I use to program on an old Sequent server.
It had 10 processors. Ok... so they were 386 processors, but HEY... there were
10 of em there.
> Granted, a single 4 way Xeon box sounds really hot and sexy but its not
> really very smart if you're wanting to set up a high-traffic web site.. You
> want to eliminate all single points of failure. Plus, I must admit I'm a
> bit jaded.. A 4 way Xeon is nothing where I work.. I get to work on large
> Sun Enterprise servers that have 64 processors and 40 gigs of ram. We have
> 7 back end servers and all of them are sent requests from our two web server
> boxes using the round-robin process..
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PadLocke the Ogre
There are three types of people in this world...
those who can count, and those who can't