popular : facebook youtube etc and you're still trying to impose a toolset on me. i think it's not strange to ask a programming language support basic hardware architecture features as they evolve into mainstream. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rene Veerman wrote: > >> look per, i for one build systems designed to scale to popular levels. >> >> that means that whatever i can squeeze out of a single machine will >> save me money. quite a lot, coz as you know dedicated hosting gets >> very expensive when you have to buy fast machines. > > Well, at Hetzner in Nuernberg you can rent an EQ8 for EUR89/month. It > comes with bandwidth, 1.5Tb software RAID, 24Gb RAM and a EUR149 setup > cost. That's an Intel Core i7, so 2.6GHz quad core plus > hyper-threading, meaning 4 to 8 concurrent processes. > > I've got four of the slightly smaller EQ4 running as backend mailservers > handling up to about 3000 concurrent SMTP connections per box. Is that > what you call a popular level? > > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (8.9°C) > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php