It's actually a legitimate question. Web servers can usually keep a large amount of data in memory but not all of it, and thus disk random read speeds are really important. Also keep in mind that if we are talking about serious hosting we are not talking about a home internet connection. We are talking about MANY users with home internet connections accessing your data, and possibly many of them, accessing random bits of it. Access times becomes crucial, and a 2.5'' pata/sata 5400 or 7200rpm HDD will roll over and die if the requests get pretty bad. The reason to use FW800 or higher would be for the ability to use more powerful drives.
ubuntu...err....centos...novell...beat them to the punch on anything on-critical-production-server + support, their new non long-term OS coming out soon. Even then, SLED and SLES are already there, releasing QUICK point upgrades NOW. People that needed it had Xen and SELinux when they needed it, while Redhat was waiting for a major release. They are FINALLY catching up, and that will be a struggle, since SUSE [NOVELL] already has so many clients but if anyone can do it, they can.
Redhat should focus on redhat and redhat live. They have so many competitors as it is in every arena, and wasting resources under the guise of strategic expansion is futile.
hell, people are even using ubuntu for servers now...
While this is awesome news, but unfortunately this sort of means that Dell will have yet more territory to defend against OSX. I hope the best for them.
To the novice, a basic linux/OSX desktop looks almost identical, and the OSX platform includes more mature apps such as itunes vs banshee/amorok or F-spot vs iphoto, iweb vs nvu in the eyes of novices. This is not to say that their products are "better," but that they are more mature.
Ubuntu's wireless needs work. Yes, it's not their fault. If Dell gets developers cranking on the unified wireless initiative that will rock. If they get developers cranking faster on Power management, that will really rock.
That's really about it.
Ubuntu is ready and although it has some notably severe hindrances for the time being, hopefully the Dell juggernaut will fix it....
Oh, and including the Novell SLED menu would be cool...to mix things up a bit with MS.
What people don't seem to understand is that all of the seemingly crazy internet speeds offered to consumers in Asia are restricted geographically. This pipe will seem to offer the equivalent of what trans-Atlantic lines did many years ago: high-bandwidth access to the US and our many interconnects.
It's "seemeless" because we don't have to go to Europe first to get to Japan.
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