Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:06:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Subject: Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup Message-ID: <20061019090221.U77176@192.168.11.51> In-Reply-To: <004001c6f34b$c9640570$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20061018082011.066e8b60@msdi.ca> <004001c6f34b$c9640570$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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Hello, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > The really big ISP's use proprietary commercial clustering solutions > that make multiple systems appear as one single system. We are talking > hundreds of thousands to millions of users. We are not talking 5000 > users or fewer. > > You can easily serve 5K users on a single server. You just need to > get good hardware. In other words, costs start at $5000 and go up. Ian - not sure if it is appropriate to ask but because one day I will need to think about a server with solid hardware, what would you advise me to look at? I mean look company-wise? Or simply select from a list of a server-type machines that costs more than 5K? Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot
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