From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 8 8:55:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.aye.net (phoenix.aye.net [206.185.8.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5092B14D26 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barrett@phoenix.aye.net) Received: (qmail 3080 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Oct 1999 15:59:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Oct 1999 15:59:53 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:59:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Barrett Richardson To: Alan Judge Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetApp servers In-Reply-To: <19991008095218.39CB514BFA@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Alan Judge wrote: > In terms of manpower to run, it's much better than our previous system > which did use big boxes and RAID. Scaling is a big problem. By using > multiple front end machines, all our customers still access > mail.indigo.ie pop.indigo.ie and so on. Using local disk means you > need a system to map users to machines; doable, but messy. > -- > Alan > > Does the NetApp have tremendous benefits over building your own mongo NFS server with a super duper RAID controller? - Barrett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message