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Posted on 06-Sep-2004 14:12 GMT by Anonymous (Edited on 2004-09-06 19:48:28 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 382 comments View flat View list |
Due to censorship by Argo the thread is locked but it is interesting to see a major Anti Amiga Inc webmaster turn in to a Genesi attacker and a certain website defender.
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Posted by Neko on 08-Sep-2004 20:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 295 (Kolbjørn Barmen): > Or to be more specific, in what why is the mentioned specs relevant at all
> for running a MySQL server? ATA100 disk, DVD-burner, radeon gfx card,
> wireless keyboard and wireless mouse are totally irrelevant specs, the only
> thing that can be said about that product is that you probably would like
> more than just 256MB of RAM.
It depends what kind of database you want to run. The product is based on the
ODW specs; no reason to change any of it since we have fairly good suppliers
for them all.
It's not meant for the kind of people who want a $8999 multiprocessing Xeon
workstation that needs a jet engine to cool and a team of 20 to maintain. If
you want that, look at;
http://solutions.mysql.com/search.php?pc=11,0&q=
The solution at the top (above the Pegasos) is just that, and one-fifth of
the price for about half the power. It may not multiprocess, it may not be
able to hold a financial institution's records with any great speed, but it's
a prebuilt and preinstalled, authorized reseller product which meets the needs
of many - a non-racked, low-footprint, low power-consumption, with reasonable
performance, database server.. something you can buy and throw under a desk,
something you don't need a "server room" for..
> If you just want a personal mysql to keep track of your personal collection
> of books and music and whatnot, you can just install mysql on whatever
> computer you already have.
I think we are targetting people between spending $9000 on a server, and
installing it on the nearest Windows box because they're cheapasses.
> All in all, totally bogus advertising, IMO.
In what way? 256MB is perfectly okay for running a MySQL server. I have run 40
websites off a machine that is barely half the power of the specced Pegasos,
some of which are entirely database-bound (this was a Windows NT box). They
get a few hits a day, the RAM caches most of the important parts of the
database.. web stores, forums, a geneology site.. it barely tapped the first
128MB and it was running the web server too!
What this would be useful in is a small store that wanted order tracking, or
whatever, and didn't want to spend $9000 on it. 40GB is plenty of room for a
database. RAID isn't essential if you're going to perform backups (redundancy
is the goal, not as many disks as you can throw at it; a backup tape in the
fridge is redundancy, for example).
And there is no DVD burner, you dolt :)
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