i as a dedicated "LAMP" server (was Re: IMHO article on database performance)

Okay, so this has been bouncing in my head for a while and have been meaning
to ask.

Given this research. What is stopping a web startup from buying an IBM i (a
relatively small one with plenty of growth) then breaking it out into two or
more partitions. One partition would be for the database, the others would
be load balanced as web servers with PHP.

Here are the questions that come to mind in something like this:

Could a single IBM i take more hits per second than a two-server LAMP setup?
What about more LAMP servers?
What are the cost differences for the initial purchase of the two options?
What about expansion costs?

Maybe I should just post this on IMHO and put all of the comments on there.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me



On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:49 PM, James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At David's request, I posted an article on imho.midrange.com comparing
some performance tests I did with the IBM i vs. MySQL. The article URL
is: http://urlq.us/7

As a side note, the article mentions some posts I made on this list
several years ago which now I can't exactly remember. Searching in the
archives didn't reveal what I remembered, but no matter. I remember
saying some rather brash things and Joe Pluta called me on it. I
apologize, Joe. Email me to claim your Coke! :)

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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