Re: [cobalt-users] Kernel Update 2.0.1 C35

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>GHL> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:26:45 -0500
>GHL> From: Greg Hewitt-Long
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>GHL> Many of our sites are e-commerce sites - some doing many
>GHL> thousands of dollars every single day... I'm not putting
>GHL> these on T1s - that would be playing with matches while
>GHL> doused in gasoline.  I looked at your site, and the links
>GHL> you provided would indicate a significant portion of the
>GHL> sites you host may well be of a type where snappiness and
>GHL> reliability are secondary concerns (you appear to have a
>GHL> high number of almost hobby type sites) - our customer
>GHL> profile is purely commercial sites - we don't do hobby sites
>GHL> - our name is Web Your Business - with an emphasis on the
>GHL> word "Business".
>GHL>
>GHL> See this:
>GHL>
>GHL> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=business+web+design
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>See this:
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>http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.webyourbusiness.com
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>That's a bit scary.
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That's the problem machine - we have part of our own site on it - yes, the graph shows multiple reboots.

I did say that the Dialtone/Interland era was coming to an end remember - this came out of a thread where I was complaining about Dialtone/Interland blaming the kernel for unexplained outages which could only be cleared by rebooting.  A total pain in the rear, but something we won't be "enduring" any more.

Our own www subdomain isn't completely located on that machine any more - I haven't switched all the DNS records over yet though.  I'm actually having it pull from two different RAQs in two different data-centers at the moment, but completing the transfer to Boulder today.

As for e-commerce sites on Cobalts - they do fine if you don't ask for load balancing on them, and we have clients  doing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on RAQs - yes, they have limitations, but they are fine stepping stones to great profits - what is your problem with them?

As for banks - yes, my time at NatWest was HORRIBLE - I had to pull every string to get out of my contract there - I'd never get a reference from them, and I'd never recommend them as a place to work - most of my commercial experience is Insurance and Reinsurance - Lloyds and Companies markets systems, large unix systems and RDBMs; plus a stint as DBA for 3i (Europe's largest VC).  The NatWest era was rather "surreal" and actually ended up with a year sabbatical where I became a scuba instructor and worked in Cairns, QLD.... I needed the time to recuperate! ;{)    I actually traded a web site design for my open water instructor certification!

regards

Greg H-L
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