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| Hey,
where can I find information about servers, like: hardware, installation,
maintenance, performance: what bandwidth, hardware, software and so on to
certain cases; what's the actual efficiency of serving eg. 100/500/1000
users at one time using JSP, ASP.NET, PHP, Perl, ..., on Linux, Unix, Win2k,
Win Server 2003; what about SQL, SMTP, POP3, FTP servers etc. efficiency,
and many more questions. In other words, a guide for beginners to set up a
server without a need to experiment (testing various soft & hardware will be
too expensive). There must be a book on it, no?
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| Anonymous 2004-01-19, 6:32 am |
| jan wrote:quote:
>
> Hey,
>
> where can I find information about servers, like: hardware, installation,
> maintenance, performance: what bandwidth, hardware, software and so on to
> certain cases; what's the actual efficiency of serving eg. 100/500/1000
> users at one time using JSP, ASP.NET, PHP, Perl, ..., on Linux, Unix, Win2k,
> Win Server 2003; what about SQL, SMTP, POP3, FTP servers etc. efficiency,
> and many more questions. In other words, a guide for beginners to set up a
> server without a need to experiment (testing various soft & hardware will be
> too expensive). There must be a book on it, no?
Good question. If anyone knows about a book (or website) containing
information like that I'd be interested to know, too.
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| Marc-Olivier Meunier 2004-01-19, 6:32 am |
| In article <3FC58E0A.EBB283B2@nowhere.com>, Anonymous wrote:quote:
> jan wrote:
>
> Good question. If anyone knows about a book (or website) containing
> information like that I'd be interested to know, too.
Hey guys you're looking for a the "Become a computer engineer in 21 days" book.
It's not that simple, if you want to know that things, you need to experiment,
you need to have a good background, to know exactly where you're heading at...
Anyway if you still want to steal IT engineer's jobs, you'll have to read a lot
of books ! (have a look a www.oreilly.com)
--
Marc-Olivier Meunier
<< C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui.
Faites comme moi, buvez beaucoup de bière. >> Mickey Mouse
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| Anonymous 2004-01-19, 6:32 am |
| Marc-Olivier Meunier wrote:quote:
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> Hey guys you're looking for a the "Become a computer engineer in 21 days" book.
That's a good one. :-)
Nothing could be farther from the truth, I am a computer science student
who is quite close to finishing university. I also have some practical
experience in setting up and maintaining servers, but they have only
been low profile servers so far.
A collection of data would really help me to estimate what hard/software
is needed for servers which are expected to be heavily accessed.
quote:
> It's not that simple, if you want to know that things, you need to experiment,
That's what I don't want to do because I neither have the time nor the
money to spend on RAID, multi processor systems, etc. which are common
in the server world. And buying all the stuff just to run a series of
tests on them would be a big waste anyway.
quote:
> you need to have a good background, to know exactly where you're heading at...
I dare say that my background is good enough.
quote:
> Anyway if you still want to steal IT engineer's jobs, you'll have to read a lot
> of books ! (have a look a www.oreilly.com)
Trust me, I know and I have. ;-)
quote:
> << C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui.
> Faites comme moi, buvez beaucoup de bière. >> Mickey Mouse
"It's by doing anything that you become no matter who. Do it like me,
drink a lot of beer." Somehow I doubt this is a quote from anyones
favorite mouse, Disney would not approve of alcohol abuse. ;-)
Bye!
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| Marc-Olivier Meunier 2004-01-19, 6:32 am |
| In article <3FC5FB1F.B8AFFF21@nowhere.com>, Anonymous wrote:quote:
> Marc-Olivier Meunier wrote:
>
> A collection of data would really help me to estimate what hard/software
> is needed for servers which are expected to be heavily accessed.
>
>
> That's what I don't want to do because I neither have the time nor the
> money to spend on RAID, multi processor systems, etc. which are common
> in the server world. And buying all the stuff just to run a series of
> tests on them would be a big waste anyway.
>
Maybe could you do a few tests with what you already have and then try to
extrapolate regarding the power of your computer and the stress you produce ?
It's a bit dangerous but it's better than nothing. Have you tried to find very
specifics statistics like mysql vs oracle vs sqlserver vs PostgreSQL which
usually give details about the hardware used.
Try databases, languages, OSes,...
For bandwidth, if you are only serving on the internet, ask your network
teachers... it's a classic exercise (hits/bandwidth)
quote:
>
>
> "It's by doing anything that you become no matter who. Do it like me,
> drink a lot of beer." Somehow I doubt this is a quote from anyones
> favorite mouse, Disney would not approve of alcohol abuse. ;-)
>
--
Marc-Olivier Meunier
I'd rather say : "By doing stupid things, you become a stupid guy..."
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