Comment Servers != webservers (Score 1) 203
This rant points out the fact that Microsoft's "Support Online" site uses six servers and contrasts that with the fact that, according to the ZD benchmarks, they should only need one webserver.
First of all, there's nothing to say that the boxes MS uses for "Support Online" are the have the same CPU, amount of memory, et al. used in the benchmarking.
Secondly, who's silly enough to put up a production website with only one webserver? Redundancy == good.
Lastly, the link that's given says that the site is made up of six SERVERS, *not* WEBSERVERS. Don't ya think one or more of those is a database server? Maybe?
First of all, there's nothing to say that the boxes MS uses for "Support Online" are the have the same CPU, amount of memory, et al. used in the benchmarking.
Secondly, who's silly enough to put up a production website with only one webserver? Redundancy == good.
Lastly, the link that's given says that the site is made up of six SERVERS, *not* WEBSERVERS. Don't ya think one or more of those is a database server? Maybe?
