[cobalt-users] Re: Clustered Cobalts

[Jay Tingley <jayt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ Kris Dahl writes... ]
 
> I haven't done any clustering with Cobalt Machines.  Honestly I think that
> its not really that cost effective... In most of the applications that
> require that sort of availability, I would rather go with machines that have
> RAID, etc.

RAID only protects you against hard drive failure, and while it's
certainly a great feature to have by providing a redundant data
backup, it doesn't provide any redundancy for server failure.

With Cobalt's StaQware you can cluster two low-end RaQ3i's for
under $5000USD, which is fairly reasonable. When the RaQ4s come
out with the built-in level 1 RAID, you could run two of these
in tandem to provide load balancing and mirroring.
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Jay Tingley
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