On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Darrel Pinpin wrote: .. > From what i remember, when i was working with an ISP way back 1996, i was > a tech support then, our company > bought a DEC Alpha server worth almost 500,000 k (bare) no hdd, just the > basics with 256 memory. It's expensive coz of its 64 bit architecture. > DEC Alpha is a very powerful server. 1 DEC Alpha could manage a Medium > Scale ISP. Our 1 DEC Alpha handled more than 300 domains, > 1,800 dial-up users, our mail server, authentication server, accounting > server etc.
our one Sun UltraSparc is handling 50k users right now. .. > 120K max clustered. I don't know, but for me this 4 servers is just > equivalent to 1 DEC Alpha with regards to performance. nope. Fastest Pentium4 or AthlonXP can beat the fastest Alpha in raw CPU now. -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
