Yes, of course.
The point to the old pc in the closet thing is that if a piece of junk like my circa 97 pc can do the above, just think what your enterprise class dedicated server with 1 - 2 gigs of RAM will do or a cluster.
Yep, I've read the Google white paper. In any event, I have a dedicated server now. In approximately 3 months depending on traffic I'm thinking of rolling out a 5 node cluster.
As far as users, I get about 300 - 600 unique IP's per hour performing searches so that will definitely be an issue.
The point to the old pc in the closet thing is that if a piece of junk like my circa 97 pc can do the above, just think what your enterprise class dedicated server with 1 - 2 gigs of RAM will do or a cluster.
Yep, I've read the Google white paper. In any event, I have a dedicated server now. In approximately 3 months depending on traffic I'm thinking of rolling out a 5 node cluster.
As far as users, I get about 300 - 600 unique IP's per hour performing searches so that will definitely be an issue.
