Re: Recommendationsofwebdevelopmentarchitecture/toolfordiverse i5 access...

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Should be www.my-i-space.com   ;-)

Pete


albartell wrote:
> We should start a site named www.myspaceII.com and have it running RPG CGI
> on an i5 :-)  We would build a better interface (which wouldn't take much).
> Then once it starts to catch on we would ask IBM to give us a big ol' 595
> and open it wide open to see how well it could handle the workload of
> 260,000 new users a day.  Man that would be a fun project to work on!
>
> Elaine Lennox would be the person to talk to as it sounds like she isn't
> opposed to alternative ways to market (i.e. most recent i5 youtube.com
> videos).
>
>
>   
> > The biggest constraint now appears to be the time it takes to maintain
> >     
> applications across thousands of servers.
>
> I have used MySpace.com on a very limited basis, but I just don't see how
> the core software could be more than a couple 100k lines of code.  Not like
> it has thousands of pages with thousands of unique fields (say data) to
> maintain.  I know I must be over simplifying it, but it just doesn't feel
> that complicated on the web frontend programming.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:41 AM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400]
> Recommendationsofwebdevelopmentarchitecture/toolfordiverse i5 access...
>
>   
> > Aaron B. wrote: So I am wondering how many servers they have running 
> > all of those sites?
> >     
>
> They said they were running about 3,000 servers.  At first they tried
> scaling vertically, using 16-way servers, but when that didn't work, they
> went with horizontal scaling.  The database server was a constraint, so they
> partitioned the database across 60 DB servers.
>
> The biggest constraint now appears to be the time it takes to maintain
> applications across thousands of servers.
>
>   
> > What I more want to know, and am guessing nobody here can really 
> > answer, is how much work (hardware, software, etc) is required to do >this
> >     
> with M$ vs. IBM?
>
> Good question.  The i5 would scale better vertically, up to 64-way servers,
> but at some point you'd need an architecture that scaled horizontally.
>
>   
> > Interesting the MySpace.com guy said that he can't imagine doing this 
> > on any other platform than Microsoft ...
> >     
>
> He also said they pulled their hair out every night.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
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