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

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> 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 outdated technology, it's good for hosting several, SIMPLE sites, but try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.

that is, in a nutshell, precisely they question I am facing, so supermicro
here we come...

thx all