On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:52:13PM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Jens Frank wrote:
Jimbo, how much rackspace can we use?
Rackspace isn't an issue at all.
Good to hear. Knowing the prices for colo's in the US, I have to say "Thank you".
When I asked the world for $20,000, my intention is that this will see us through a pretty steep growth curve for awhile. I'd like for us to setup a system now that's robust and has a very large amount of reserve capacity, so that as far as we can manage, the site will be highly responsive to users for some time to come *even in a case where we have had bad hardware luck*.
If two squids are good enough and we can survive on one, then I want three. If 3 webservers are handling the load just fine, and we can survive on 2, then I want 5. If geoffrin dies, I want to have another machine that can take the load without breaking a sweat.
You said something else earlier today, that we shouldn't spend the money just because we have it. Being tight-fisted, I somewhat have a problem with "overdelivery". Redundancy is fine, we need it. Having a spare server on site is probably cheaper than a service contract. But 3? Please, someone covince me that we won't find a better way to spend the money in half a year.
Regards,
JeLuF