On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:21:00PM -0500, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Yes, Ivan; that's why Jeff suggested
provisioning more powerful
platforms.
Wikipedia has so far followed the approach of scaling out instead of up,
and that with commodity hardware. If you believe this approach is
mistaken, you'll need to explain what you know about scaling server
farms that Google doesn't.
My point was merely that he suggested more powerful hardware, and
received as a reply, "no, the problem is that we need more powerful
hardware". Essentially.
Cheers,
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