Re: [cobalt-users] OT ish - real world cobalt server "serving" capacity comparisons.

["Paul" <paulbentz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>for multiple websites you like cobalt.......
>
>for speciality websites you like something that isn't cobalt but has
>basically the same hardware and the same OS.....
>
>so you are saying that the cobalt customisations, including the gui, make
>this huge difference in performance??

I think what Jeff was alluding to was that the Cobalt is good for hosting
SIMPLE, mostly static (no dynamic/interactive site content) and that a
custom box is good for interactive sites that heavily use PHP/CGI, etc.

It's not the GUI that makes this huge difference, it's the hardware. The
RaQ4 only has a 450 Mhz processor and a max of 512 MB RAM. While it's very
outdated technology, it's good for hosting several, SIMPLE sites, but try
running a busy bulletin board, with 1,000+ hits a day, or a busy shopping
cart site on it, and it will bog down or crash very quickly. I know from
personal experience. If you are running such a busy site, get yourself a 1
GHz machine with 1 GB of RAM to handle it.

Paul