Re: Server questions

2003-03-08 Thread Perrin Harkins
Michael Hyman wrote: I am not familiar with clustering Would you run a mod_perl based web site on a cluster? Isn't the point of a cluster to make a group of machines appear to be one? If so, how is that beneficial for web services? All large web sites run on multiple servers, for redundancy an

Re: Server questions

2003-03-08 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Michael Hyman wrote: > I am not familiar with clustering > > Would you run a mod_perl based web site on a cluster? If the performance and the money for the hardware are issues then perhaps before you buy you should spend some time looking into things like alter

Re: Server questions

2003-03-07 Thread Dzuy Nguyen
that beneficial for web services? Thanks...Michael - Original Message - From: "Dzuy Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Modperl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: Re: Server questions I always say, buy the best you can afford. Then

Re: Server questions

2003-03-07 Thread Michael Hyman
n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Modperl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: Re: Server questions > I always say, buy the best you can afford. > Then again, consider how many Linux PC you can have for the price of the Sun. > Run those PCs in

Re: Server questions

2003-03-07 Thread Dzuy Nguyen
I always say, buy the best you can afford. Then again, consider how many Linux PC you can have for the price of the Sun. Run those PCs in a web farm or cluster and that Sun can't match the processing power and speed. Michael Hyman wrote: Hi guys, I have a dilemma that I need input on. If you were