[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Eric Dittman]

> > > > Okay, let me rephrase that:  How many thousands of individual
> > > > web servers can you run, without slowdowns, from a group of
> > > > Netras that cost the same as the z800?
> > >
> > > how much does a z800 cost?
> > 
> > $375,000.
> 
> See.  For that priceI don't give a shit how high the bandwidth is, what
> the back end disk i/o is, or any other junk.  Fact is, I can afford a
> bunch of Netras and a couple load balancers.

The z800 isn't aimed at you.  It's aimed at large corporations
and large IT shops (esp. IT outsourcing shops).  When you need
to run several thousand web servers then you might be interested.

> Besides, for a grand total fo *4* websites, most current hardware is
> slightly overkill (were it not for tha Java server-side stuff).  Plus,
> at all of 2Mb of bandwith, I don't need $huge_ass_fricken_machine...

Of course not.

> Besides, comparing a z800 to a bunch of Netras is like, comparing a
> watermellon to a bag of grapes.  Really...

Tell that to Sun.  It was their FUD that the z800 was completely
useless that I was refuting.
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Eric Dittman
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