It's the poor man's stress test. Fire up your site then mention it on slashdot... ;>
- Jeff On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Cravens, Billy wrote: > Last week, there was an "Ask Slashdot" question about > managing/documenting web projects, and since the poster was using > ColdFusion, a number of the posts mentioned Fusebox and got modded up > pretty high. That was the same day that I noticed the site down - > perhaps this contributed to the hard drive failure. > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/20/215202&mode=thread > > --- > Billy Cravens > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan McCollough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:44 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise > > I don't recall fusebox.org getting slashdotted? Did it? When? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cravens, Billy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:21 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise >> >> I think it was down to the Slashdotting from the other day. Must not > be >> on any heavy-duty hardware. >> >> --- >> Billy Cravens >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alan McCollough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:18 PM >> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> Subject: RE: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise >> >> This be true. The depreciation on hardware is so fast these days you > can >> pick up some gear pretty much by hanging out by a dumpster. Oops, this >> sounds like an fbcommunity thing now. And Steve started it! Well, now >> that >> its underway, the hearings can begin on why fusebox.org was down. > We'll >> need >> to get the affidavits in the mail and have the Illuminati stand before >> the >> grand jury by the end of next week... >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Steve Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:13 AM >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: Re: CF Server 5 Professional vs. Enterprise >>> >>> It has support for the big databases too. The clustering in > enterprise >>> isn't great because it's >>> software based. You'll always get a slightly faster failover with a >>> hardware solution. A little >>> known fact is that you can get ultra inexpensive hardware load >> balancers >>> off of ebay. For a $1000 >>> you can find a excellent layer 7 balancer which can handle millions > of >>> hits a day, even handle >>> geographic clusters. >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> My understanding is that the only real advantage of Enterprise > over >>>> Professional has to do with clustering and load balancing. I'm > sure >>> there >>>> are other more "trivial" differences, but I think that's the main >> one. >>>> >>>> I'd guess Professional should suit your needs, given your >> description of >>>> the situation. >>>> >>>> (Embedded * * * * * >>>> image moved Charlie Griefer >>>> to file: Webmaster >>>> pic00041.gif) SunSource / Sun Health >>>> Corporation >>>> http://wow.sunhealth.org >>>> 623.876.3210 >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Alexander >>>> Ismail To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> <aismail1@pacb cc: >>>> ell.net> Subject: CF Server 5 >>> Professional vs. Enterprise >>>> >>>> 03/22/2002 >>>> 11:34 AM >>>> Please respond >>>> to fusebox >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> We plan to move our site from a shared hosting environment to a >>> dedicated >>>> box. >>>> Since we don't run a real high traffic site I am considering > putting >> CF >>>> Server 5 and MS-SQL Server 2000 on the same box. >>>> >>>> Although I compared the specs of CF Server 5 Professional vs. >> Enterprise >>> I >>>> can't figure out whether CF Server 5 Professional is sufficient > for >> my >>>> needs >>>> or not. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts and/or recommendations on this? >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Alex >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> PearlSoup.com - Building A Better World, One Story At A Time >>>> >>>> Alexander Ismail Phone: 415-759-8722 >>>> 945 Taraval St., #235 Web: www.PearlSoup.com >>>> San Francisco, CA 94116 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> -- >>> ------ >>>> Name: pic00041.gif >>>> pic00041.gif Type: GIF Image (image/gif) >>>> Encoding: base64 >>> >>> >> >> > > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
