On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:17:41AM -0500, Jerry Eyers wrote: > > Ok, let me throw some cold reality water on this discussion...
... > in the UK, the largest 'chemist' in the UK, built the largest > website in the world (2.4 million cc transactions/month with over 460 > servers) and coordinated an IP renumber for over 3,300 stores cold reality is about right. 2.4 million cc transactions/mo with over four hundred and sixty (460)! servers makes it the largest web site in the world? I better tell that to our datacenter folks or the guys over at amazon or msn or latency.net - Adam Rothschild does more than that on his laptop with a wifi card and a hacked-up wrt58g. > network infrastructure maintainers out there. You must remember > to take us into account when talking about global addressing > policies. In the end, we pay most the bills. :-) And we thank you for it. /vijay