[kscaldef]

> Our single <$5,000 box handles about 4M pageviews per day without moving the cpu above 5% steady state. That's the sort of baseline I'm used to from the Microsoft stack

You realize how meaningless a statement like this is, right? You just can't go around talking about "pageviews" as if they were some uniform measure of workload.

[sho]

Yeah, I was about to mention that. 4M a day is about 50/sec; if it's nothing but static pages you could serve that on a Pentium 1 without breaking a sweat. I've been giving away P4s recently, so their value is effectively zero - they can probably do it at under 5% too.

The problem is obviously when you're not serving static pages.