Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:52:17 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Subject: Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup Message-ID: <002701c6f414$48f1b080$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20061018082011.066e8b60@msdi.ca> <004001c6f34b$c9640570$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20061019090221.U77176@192.168.11.51>
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----- Original Message ----- 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> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup > 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? > Well, you probbaly want to start with the name brands who actually know that FreeBSD exists! Start here: http://www.testdrive.hp.com Click on the Sign Up for an Account link right under the FreeBSD logo. Ted
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