> Have you considered the potential benefits of a number of smaller
> servers
> instead of a single large server? I'm not familiar with exactly what
> you're
> doing, but it be worth investigating.
While this is something to consider, there is also a movement among some
to consolidate tiny servers into a single virtualized environment using
things like Xen. AIX and IBM push this pretty hard on their UNIX
servers, where they have a lot of facilities for deploying one off
servers for specific tasks in a virtualized environment.
This can be a big cost saver in terms of hardware if you can balance it
all correctly.
Aaron W. Hsu
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