The internet is held together with spit and baling wire

Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by rabbits77 on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:36PM (#29356744)

I worked at a small ISP/web host in the late 90s. A very common web server at the time was a cheap white box PC running Windows NT and IIS. We had many of these systems on this interesting “rack” that was more like a multi level table or three d chess board.

These systems could handle a ton of traffic very reliably. Consider that there was very little dynamic content and what there was barely taxed the CPU at all (e.g. a Perl CGI script to query and display some tiny amount of data from (LOL!) an Access database.

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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by justinjlynn on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:32AM (#29358049)

If it works well and works reliably, even when it needs to be changed quickly - it's not a bad solution, unless it costs too much.

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