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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (139748)	7/20/2001 12:10:35 AM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 186894

Dear Mary: Its not 25% even for web servers. I do not know how you get your vastly inflated figures. Each one you have cited has the OEM markup included and that averages 400% of cost. And those configurations are practically barebones like tiny disk, tiny memory, no monitor, keyboard, or NIC. Heck without a NIC or I/O, how does it serve? A 386 can saturate a 10BT ethernet. A small P133 can saturate a 100BT ethernet. And you claim that a Xeon 8 way can pipe the results through 1 10/100 port. You simply are looking at it from the wrong end. First you define what you want this server to do. Then find what software you want to run on it. Then you select the smallest system that runs that software to the speed desired plus a growth factor (no more than 1 year if you plan to scale by adding nodes (identical servers connected via a network). More than that and your new nodes will be obsolete and pricy). A four way with one CPU that can handle the current load is ok. When the load is more than the current CPUs can handle, just add one more. Usually before that memory is maxed, faster larger disk is added, NICs are added, because they are the usual bottleneck to higher performance. The watch word is buy only what you need for the next 6 to 12 months at most. You can upgrade later when prices are cheaper. That is the typical paradigm. Pete