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Re: Which better - lots of parallel servers or 1 big box

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:58:54 GMT
Message-ID: <3c57c3a1.9032405@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>


Allen doodled thusly:

>
>If you needed a high available database with lots of performance, would
>you rather have several smaller boxes hooked up in a parallel environment
>or one huge server?

several smaller boxes hooked up to a huge disk farm server. I'll gladly trade off the small loss in update speed for the ease of recovery from any individual system crash.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Wed Jan 30 2002 - 03:58:54 CST

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