[theforum] weo 2b: to OSS or not?

[Jeff Howden]

William,

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> From: William Anderson
> 
> > With regard to performance, that issue was fixed by
> > simply putting it on a box/setup that doesn't suck. 
> > Nothing more was necessary.  Honest.
> 
> Meow ;)  It's always the way tho - chuck horsepower at
> anything (well, other than Doom 3) and it Usually Just
> Works instead of Just Crawls.
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Actually, that wasn't really the case at all.  Prior to the move it was
split between two boxes.  Oracle was on a box that was supposedly optimized
for Oracle while WEO had a dedicated box for serving the site running CF5
and Linux.  Hardware-wise, we didn't really experience much of a change.
Both were dual processor boxes with somewhere around 1 gig of power each and
about 1 gig of RAM.  On paper, we took a step backwards since it was moved
from split db/web (dedicated) to a single box for web and db that also
hosted numerous other websites.  However, the instant, marked performance
improvement would indicate that the paper analysis was grossly mistaken.

Jeff
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