RE: Speed on Raq

[betty c <bc90007@yahoo.com>]

Kyle,
   What's your spec idea for a minivend server.
   Currently, I am shopping/putting together one for a grocery website.

   Thanks,
   Betty C

--- Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Cameron Prince wrote:
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> > We originally setup our two stores on Cobalt RaQs. The performance was piss
> > poor! These boxes have a non-Intel processor called a MIPS and it's about
> > the equivalent of a Pentium 100 MHz. CGI-Wrap is turned on by default and
> > Minivend will fail, but the big kicker is that CyberCash (and most other
> > credit card verification programs)encryption/decryption won't run on it.
> > This is because their programs were compiled for linux on the Intel
> > platform. If you plan on having an extremely low usage store front, the RaQ
> > may be a good place for you, but we ended up co-locating our own servers
> > with our ISP.
> 
> I just converted over from a Pentium 166 to a P-II 400.  I would not call
> the results spectacular, but it is now usable.  With the Pentium machine,
> things were very slow on the checkout page.  Just getting the page on the
> screen could take 10 seconds.   Now, it is more like 2 or 3.
> 
> Cobalts are cute little machines, but I don't know that I would serve
> much dynamic content from one.
> 
> PaymentNet (now called Signio) has/had a client piece written in Perl that
> did the client-side encryption and connect.  It sounds like CyberCash is
> just trying to skim the cream with the Intel boxes.
> 
> > I have a Compaq Prolient 450Mhz Server with RAID-5 ($7,000.00) for one and
> a
> > http://www.hitech-usa.com/ 450Mhz Server ($2,000.00) for the other with
> both
> > running RedHat v6.0. Both stores smoke now. I would guess performance is up
> > by at least 70%.
> 
> Yikes.  Only 70%??!?  You should get a _factor_ of 7 speed up, especially
> on the RAID box!  We put enough RAM in our server to make sure that the
> disk is not the deciding factor in anything.  That seems to help a lot.
> All my previous experience tells me that if your web server hits the disk
> for anything more than booting, you will have bad performance.
> 
> A lot of people seem to try to "save" money by not putting enough RAM in
> their webservers.  I think this is a mistake.
> 
> Best,
> Kyle
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