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From: Jeff Dryer <jeff@techstocks.com>
To: 'Mike Voorhees' <mvoor@hydrosystems.com>
Subject: RE: Silicon Investor
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 13:16:39 -0800
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Mike,
Your words certainly ring true. Microsoft NT is not a stable platform for running a website on. However, because our resources are limited, it is not possible for us to run the site on UNIX. To run SI on Unix would cost several million dollars a year versus several hundred =
thousand dollars a year. SI is the largest NT site on the Web serving about 2 million page views per day. We are working very hard right now to do the impossible...to create an NT system with almost zero downtime and unlimited expansion potential ...
Jeff Dryer
Silicon Investor
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Voorhees [SMTP:mvoor@hydrosystems.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 1997 10:18 AM
To: webmaster@techstocks.com
Subject: Silicon Investor
I notice that you are running a MicroSoft server. I think that this
might be one of your major bottleneck problems. As a suggestion,
consider using a Unix server. I think you will find that your bottleneck problems will subside immensely. MicroSoft CANNOT support the kind of throughput your important service provides. I realize that because of deals that have been made this may indeed not be possible. Thank you for the oppurtunity to provide a suggestion. I also believe you will find your service reliability to improve immensely. MicroSoft isn't close to the reliability of stable Unix systems.
Michael L. Voorhees, Ph.D.,P.E. |
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