Steve Holdoway wrote:
Couldn't agree more. The bottleneck on any web server *should* be the
connection speed to the internet. With my ADSL connection, I'm throttled to
768Kbit ( yeah right! ) bandwidth - say 10Kbyte/sec. Most serial ports can
comfortably deliver that, but it's more than enough to demonstrate demo
software to prospective clients ( and I'm running apache as a vmware client,
along with a mail server in another, and clustered oracle database servers in 2
more on that server! ) . Even my production sites are only delivering at about
2Mbit peak - 200 - 250 KByte/sec is still nothing with ( the system bottleneck
of ) disks capable of 100 to 200 times that performance, even though the
server's a couple of years old now.
<rant>why are they logging all this stuff to the database - we've got system
logs, webserver logs,
Because system logs don't always record what we want to record
we're using google analytics for free, so why must we have *yet another* level of logging?
see above
Why can't developers just develop and deliver reliable, tested code instead of trying to fix life,
> the universe, and the kitchen sink as well!
Spoken like a true sysadmin. :-)
But my experience is that code is often badly tested because those who are paying for the
development would have to pay a similar amount (often more) to test the code as develop it in the
first place. So if you are developing software for a hospital machine that might kill someone if it
goes wrong then it is worth it but if you are developing a CMS based site for a Pot Plant Holder
warehouse (random e.g.) then it probably isn't.
Time for a valium... (:
Have one for me too :-/
Steve
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