[H-GEN] Microsoft ftp..

[Bradley Marshall]

The following is a quote from
http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd.html about setting up a
ftp server:

"Buy a PC and install Microsoft software on it. For a large server,
you'll need Windows NT, and the software license will cost about as much
as the server. Microsoft has a solutions and best practices Web page
(see Resources below) that states that you can expect to move about 6
gigabytes (GB) a day from three Compaq ProLiant 5000s or 5500s with four
Pentium Pro processors and 512 megabytes (MB) of memory each. In order
to maintain availability, Microsoft recommends that you install multiple
systems with failover. "

So thats 3 _quad_ PPro's with 512M ram each to do 6 gig of ftp traffic
per day.  Pretty incredible when you compare it with:

"Buy a PC and install FreeBSD on it. The hardware would appear to cost
the same, but you don't pay anything for the software. In fact, as the
hardware configuration for wcarchive.cdrom.com shows, this is
misleading. wcarchive is only a single system with a single CPU, also a
Pentium Pro. In contrast to Microsoft's 6 GB of downloads per day,
however, it routinely transfers more than 700 GB of data a day for to up
to 3,600 concurrent users. This is over 100 times the performance of
three larger Windows NT machines combined. On December 2, 1998,
wcarchive transferred 820,097,694,368 bytes of data, making it the
busiest FTP server in the world. "

Have fun,
Brad
-- 
Bradley Marshall
Sysadmin
Plugged In Software