Re: [cobalt-users] Pushing Limits

[PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx]

That has happend to me before, but with 150 clients.  How much does Raid cost?

In a message dated 5/3/00 7:34:37 PM Central Daylight Time, 
krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> on 5/3/00 5:02 PM, PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx at PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx wrote:
>  
>  > Cobalt claims the server can handle 200 domains... Now is that a physical
>  > limit or could I handle 400 domains if each domain was barely used?
>  
>  This has been covered fairly well in the archives, but I've got an
>  additional notion that I would like to point out.
>  
>  Its not a hard limit.  But you're going to want to give the machine as much
>  memory as you can afford.  I wouldn't do it on anything less than 256M.
>  
>  Now that being said, when you start doing that level of hosting, it is
>  *probably* going to be worth your while to get a system with RAID that can
>  survive a single disk failure.
>  
>  It sucks when 50 sites have to wait while you restore from tape or 
whatever,
>  but 400 would be a nightmare.  You're clients would make life hell for you
>  while you tried to restore the data.  It would undoubthedly be ugly.  If 
you
>  are getting $20/mo * 400 users, that's $8k a month.  It would be 
*extremely*
>  cost effective to get a mirrored RAID system that would remain up even if a
>  drive failed.
>  
>  Just something to think about.