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<blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 181715" data-attributes="member: 758"><p>I took your post and divided it for discussion sake.</p><p></p><p>1. Sure you can pick up a dual board, some cpus', ram, and a few SCSI HD's for cheap on ebay, but the reliabilty and WARRANTY is key with big web farms. If one web server were to die in my farm I can call compaq and i have a 4 hr response time and they come out and fix it with the equipment. That sure saves me time and effort to fix the problem as well as keep spares on hand for every lil part that can go wrong. Warranty is key with big farms. IF mortality has his stuff together and has name brand servers I wouldn't think twice, but I don't know his systems, can you provide specs?</p><p></p><p>2. BSD is still king of the web servers. MS ran BSD up until a few years ago on their hotmail servers and finally had to drastically increase the amount to keep up with sheer bulk of it. Linux is good, but it's not solid yet like BSD. If I were learning UNIX i would learn Linux over BSD as in the next few years it will overtake BSD's foothold in several areas as well as MS hold on the desktop.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is not a flame but just asking of questions and wondering what would be best for ENWorld in the long run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leopold, post: 181715, member: 758"] I took your post and divided it for discussion sake. 1. Sure you can pick up a dual board, some cpus', ram, and a few SCSI HD's for cheap on ebay, but the reliabilty and WARRANTY is key with big web farms. If one web server were to die in my farm I can call compaq and i have a 4 hr response time and they come out and fix it with the equipment. That sure saves me time and effort to fix the problem as well as keep spares on hand for every lil part that can go wrong. Warranty is key with big farms. IF mortality has his stuff together and has name brand servers I wouldn't think twice, but I don't know his systems, can you provide specs? 2. BSD is still king of the web servers. MS ran BSD up until a few years ago on their hotmail servers and finally had to drastically increase the amount to keep up with sheer bulk of it. Linux is good, but it's not solid yet like BSD. If I were learning UNIX i would learn Linux over BSD as in the next few years it will overtake BSD's foothold in several areas as well as MS hold on the desktop. This is not a flame but just asking of questions and wondering what would be best for ENWorld in the long run. [/QUOTE]
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