4 ms·
Didn't take long to overload it given it is a 486
by Hydraulix989 5y ago
Didn't take long to overload it given it is a 486
- bigiain 5y agoJan 2001 was the first month I hit $1mil in revenue from our website. It was served from a Pentium P5 beige desktop box colocated in PAIX. Actually, there were 3 of them. 1 running Apache and Perl FastCGI, one running MySQL, and a third which mostly ran backups, but could be used as failover for either the web server or database if required. I used to fly from Sydney to San Francisco 3 or 4 times a year with half a dozen hard drives in my carryon, because that was the most reliable way to do major upgrades - we had three identical boxes in the office in Sydney, and would install/configure/test major software and dependancy upgrades in house, then go to the data centre and swap in the new drives one machine at a time with zero downtime - usually. I was rarely the only one in my datacenter aisle with a screwdriver and a PAIX guy looking over my shoulder, but most other people were swapping out whole rack mount servers, not opening them up to replace or upgrade components.
- sillysaurusx 5y ago1 mil from what?
- ungamed 5y agoI believe its "Turn down for what"
- bigiain 5y agoHotel, car hire, and tour bookings. 32-33% margin after credit card fees. We were doing great, and totally full of ourselves. We turned down a buyout aisle we thought we were worth 10 or 20 times what they offered. Then Sept 11 happened and our revenue crashed 90% overnight. :sigh:
- digisign 5y ago"'PAIX, the 'Palo Alto Internet eXchange' was a neutral Internet exchange point." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX