[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > > I believe I gave the wrong impression that I thought the z800 was the
> > > best web server to use in any situation, which I don't. I wouldn't
> > > think of trying to use one at home or in a small shop or department.
> >
> > If I was crazy enough to use my G5 at home, I would have several VM's
> > running on it, and each VM would replace one of the smaller servers that I
> > currently use.  There would be many wasted processor cycles and much
> > wasted I/O bandwidth, and my electric bill wouldn't be all that different.
>
> So, err, why don't you use it at home?

Size and power consumption.

Peace...  Sridhar