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Real World Webserver Price vs. Performance Figures?

Posted by Cliff on from the comparing-your-bucks-per-hit-ratio dept.

Borgoth asks: "At my company we just broke 10 million pageviews per day. We use 5 2-processor 1U off-the-shelf Intel boxes running Apache, Linux, mod_perl, and MySQL. This averages out to about 2 million pageviews per day per server (about 20 million hits/server, including images). Most of our pages have some dynamism using mod_include SSIs, and maybe one pageview in five directly results in a db query. We think we should be pretty happy that we're doing so much with so little, but we don't really have any idea how much horsepower other sites are using in their server farms. So, what sort of webfarms do Slashdot readers maintain, and how does their performance compare?"

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  1. Well I really dont know.. by override11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if you give us the URL of your web site, the kind folks here at /. would be happy to give it a load test for ya. :)

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    No I didnt spell check this post...
  2. My friend's site... by rwsorden · · Score: 5, Funny

    My buddy over at Oesterly.com seems to think that a Pentium 100 and 128MB is sufficient.

    1. Re:My friend's site... by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is that an invitation for everyone on Slashdot to simultaneously test that hypothesis? ;-)

    2. Re:My friend's site... by rwsorden · · Score: 3, Funny

      Heh. If he gets too many hits, I think there's a good chance that I will be downgraded from Friend V2.0 to Acquaintance V1.5...

    3. Re:My friend's site... by rwsorden · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Well, it's been a few hours and it looks like a Pentium 100 and 128MB of RAM is all anyone would ever need to host a website."

      - rwsorden, May 5, 2003 from Infamous Technology Quotes

    4. Re:My friend's site... by rwsorden · · Score: 2, Funny

      Who do you think you are? This is Slashdot! How dare you analyze the situation logically and reasonably!

      Seriously, though, I'm glad you brought that up. That'll make him feel a whole lot better. Sometimes the "myth of the almighty Slashdotting" can get even the most level-headed webmaster up in arms. Now if only he'd return my phone call...

  3. Blahaq���� by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Imagine a bewolf cluster of these! DOES IT RUN LINUX?! now?! does it?! DOES IT?! *IMPLODES* wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff