From: "Geo." 

I saw the article and I'm still laughing. 5 machine to host ONE website?

There was no mention at all of
traffic levels they are supporting. I have sites like kirby.com that get a
million page views a day on servers with 250 other websites. Put all the
cpu you want in the mac and you still aren't going to handle that kind of 
load because cpu is not the bottleneck. Disk is and the mac mini is using
the second slowest drives available.

My personal bet, take that site, stick it on a dual PIII/850 with a scsi
raid array and 4g memory and one HP netserver will handle it with room for
them to double or tripple the traffic levels even with their php stuff
sucking up a little extra cpu. They make it sound like it's google or
something but it's just one website they managed to spread across 4
undersized computers is how I read it, they are bragging because they can
run it on one battery backup.

As for posting to ask them, they have an article on routers at their colo,
netopia routers, and another on how they have no power to power the colo.
These guys are like one of our small downstreams, they are thinking in
piker terms. Notice how they didn't mention how they backup their macmini
setup?

It will take time but they will eventually learn fewer and bigger machines
work better. If you need more power call an electrician, don't do the piker
route. It doesn't work and when you suddenly need to expand you can't.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Put in a farm of Mac Mini's.
>
> See article I believe in mactopus section.
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> Glenn M.
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>> "Richard B."  wrote in message
>> news:8m6213h7rnroeijqaubetsktl39fd7gtaf{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> What happened to NT 4.0 SP6a?  ;-)
>>
>> Nothing, it's still running DNS for the whole ISP safer and more reliably
>> than any unix server running bind.
>>
>> W2K is working well too. I completely skipped XP and I've got Vista
>> running my main laptop now and all I can say is you will never stop this
>> puppy from foning home. It does what it want's when it wants and unless
>> you plan to put a chastity belt on it and stick it in a tower it is not
>> going to be tamed.
>>
>> So come 2009, it's goodbye MS, hello Linux, you remember when I told you
>> NT was the future, well the future future is not NT..
>>
>> Geo.
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