Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations

[Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org>]

Thats why you get an Ultra10 and beef it up.

What yovue described doesn't require the heft of an E250 :)


and anyhow, youd get the E275R or whatever, the rackmount.  And anyhow,
Sun hardware is no short of amazing.  Our E250's have great
hardware/software intergration it seems, and the amount of 'bad stuff'
the E250 will complain about is good, compared to default linux
installs.

* Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com <Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com> [000919 15:49]:
> A Sun box running Solaris (with that kind of power) will cost
> me much more than what I can afford.  That box is only $3500,
> which will of course go down over a couple of months.
> 
> Don't tell me that I can get a Sun E250, with that kind of disk
> and memory for $3500.  :P
> 
> The reason why I'm going with that machine is that I want both
> expandability (if I need it), plus reliablitity.  If the site gets big,
> I don't want to be down for 3 days because of a hardware failure.  :(
> 
> BTW, /. has I believe, 6 boxes (that was one year ago), with
> a load balancer.  Certainly a lot more than I have.  :P
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> jethro@freakzilla.com, on 09/19/2000 03:33:10 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
> cc:  
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations
> 
>   Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> 
> > Greetings, all, I'm looking to build a server for an e-commerce
> > company that I'm thinking about starting up.  Sadly, as I don't
> > have much experience running Linux on "high-end" machines,
> 
> 
> Sun. Sparc. Solaris.
> 
> 
> -Yaron
> 
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