>Like Sun hardware - come now... High end sun hardware kills PCs right - that's why there are so many high-end sun machines in the top500 supercomputers (top500.org). oh wait, um...there are hardly any suns listed.
hey - wait a second..what's this? a whole bunch of PC clusters in the top500? gee, that's weird... ;-) </sarcasm> the big-iron SMP vs shared-nothing cluster debate rages on, but high-end sun hardware, along with all the other monolithic smp machines have been trailing on price/performance for quite a while now. shared-nothing pc clusters simply dominate raw performance as well as price/performance - not to mention ease of provisioning. Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Bowen Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:07 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List Subject: Re: In-house Hosting Options Sasha Pachev wrote: > > So I take that's what the advantage of T1s are? I never understood > that either as DSL can go faster then a T1 and significantly cheaper, > but I haven't seen a way to combine the bandwidth for one IP. I've > also seen DC3 connections from a few ISPs that are up to 20,000 a > month. But still at a very poor bandwidth. I just don't understand > what makes these different connections so special. > > > Perceived value :-) Kind of like Sun hardware. Sometimes people feel > more comfortable when they have paid more, and the market is quite to > respond for the need for this warm and cozy feeling. > > For the bandwidth solution - the first thing that comes to mind. If > collocation is too expensive, get as many cheap 1.5 MBit/s lines as > needed with different IP addresses and use iptables + round-robin DNS. > > Near-perfect uptime is expensive, the closer you try to get to > perfect, and in many cases overvalued. I would venture to say that for > a regular web application, if your site beats the reliability of their > desktop , most of your clients will be satisfied. Once you reach a > certain point, it is wise to spend your resources on the things that > matter more especially when those resources are limited. > Like Sun hardware - come now... High end sun hardware kills PCs - On the other hand who wants to run the family site on an E10K. :) Every tool has a job. -Peter .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `===================================' .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
