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Unlimited Linux Web server Clusters 43

Posted by CmdrTaco from the when-in-doubt-throw-more-hardware-at-it dept.
Gihadrah writes "Pacific Hi-Tech will next week preview a new version of its Linux distribution that lets system operators tie together as many Linux machines as they want in order to achieve faster and more reliable Web servers. "
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  • : NT already has this. Name one thing that linux has that Microsoft's NT doesn't have.

    Stability?

    : Pretty soon, you're gonna have clusters of thousands of Windows NT 5 servers, and all you dorks will be fawning over *them*.

    More like laughing my ass off, because due to the instability and inefficiency of NT those clusters are _NEEDED_ in a bunch of instances.
  • Posted by BobSkiAS778:

    Linux has two thing NT will probably never have, a zero monetary price (although all software has costs), and open source. As for user features, you may be right, except I'd consider performance and portability two user features in which Linux beats NT.

    I'll probably regret replying to this, as it's obviously flame bait ("you dorks"). Come on, give me a break. No one with an intelligent argument has to resort to personal attacks (bonus points if you spot the hypocricy in that statement!)
  • Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:

    I'll name one thing that linux has that NT doesnt. STABILITY! There are still linux machines running the original kernel without a reboot in several years.

    Just too bad the NT robs a processor of a significant portion of it's power. I guarantee you that with two identical clusters of machines, one running linux and one running NT, the linux cluster will be faster.

    LK
  • Linux has stability, scability and robustness, just to name a few. NT is barely able to hold its own as a single-user desktop machine. In addition, Linux can out-class NT on multiple platforms - go run NT on an UltraSPARC. You are so funny. Also, manage an NT server remotely - go on, try it. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. What a maroon. Oh, nt5, or win2k, or whatever the name-dujour is, is vapour. More methane from Redmond. But, as we all know, folks like you make statements like yours because of prolonged exposure to the gasious eminations from ms.
  • Couldn't a Beowulf cluster ideally be set up to serve as a sort of "server farm" with round-robin DNS and failovers? This would be a great app I would think, no?
  • Jeez. I'd rather roll my own at that cost. Sounds like they may have actually done just that... ;>
  • Now troll, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. And take NT with you when you leave. :)
  • Hmmm, darn. That's too bad I guess. Perhaps in time as Beowulf matures?

    Are there any good resources out there that anyone knows about to setup such a "server farm" under Linux?

  • Name one thing that linux has that Microsoft's NT doesn't have.

    AFAIK, NT can only do IP masquerading by replacing parts of the client machines's TCP/IP stack with their proprietary MS Proxy stuff, so it only works with Windows clients. Linux's IP masquerading requires no modifications to the clients' IP stacks, so you can use anything as a client. I'm pretty sure the Linux IP masquerading implementation was out first, too.

    --Troy
  • Sell for 1000? Sounds like proprietary extensions... So what's the story; is it running apache or not?
    Can a custom-built config (config only) be copyrighted? i.e. can you sell a config of an open-source system? I wonder.
    --
  • Give me a break, the on top of it plug is obviously my .sig, and my post is on-topic.
    --
  • Is this the same PHT whose FTP site I couldn't
    bring up for over a week?

    This is the massive scalability I have been waiting for :)
  • Run to your master, run, pitiful beast of darkness. Go tell him the light of Elbereth shines again and will wash away the filthy and the desolation he inflicted upon us for an age to end.
  • We could build a kewl Beowulf clu...doh. Nevermind. ;-)
  • I work for an Hosting farm and we use Solaris, Linux, and NT. Let me tell you, you need thousands of NT servers clustered together to get the same stabilty you would get from one Linux box. I have cycle all of our NT boxes at least once a day. The only time I ever reboot the linux boxes is for kernel/hardware upgrades.
  • this! [coyotepoint.com]

    Plus, these guys have a free download for this (stripped down, but still useful) that runs on FreeBSD.

  • >Name one thing that linux has that Microsoft's NT >doesn't have.

    Stability.

    But NT does have more pretty blue screens!
  • so, let's suppose you learn that slashdot is going to mention your server. what you do then is the following procedure:
    1) beg-borrow-steal every spare computer you can lay your hands on.
    2) install aux-server stuff on each
    3) config them to backfill for your main server
    4) weather the slashdot hurricane
    5) return everybody's computers with a smile.

    obviously, servers see a bursty duty cycle, so why not let the sysop do a quick reshuffling of hardware.
  • As always you can see illiterati, who didn't try to understand the contents of that $ 29,95 CD-Rom of RedHat with Extreme Linux, Beowulf and so on. Or does he mean that NT is sold for that 30 bucks or less in order to be installed on a cluster of 520 systems as in Germany by CLOWN - CLuster Of Working Nodes (see http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1999/01/010/).

    Fortuna favet fatuis (Fortuna favors fools, and most of them run windows)
  • http://proxy.iinchina.net/~wensong/ippfvs is a free implementation of the same idea for Linux. None of this $1000 per server crap.

    I use it on a 6 node cluster at home... works great. (does nice load balancing too) There's also an entry at freshmeat for it.

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