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En este post trataremos de la infraestructura que requiere Slashdot. Uriah La semana pasada nos dijo todo sobre el hardware necesario. Esta semana, Jamie McCarthy recoge la historia y nos habla de que software, trucos e historias ... Desde el memcached a mysql y otras cosas más. Los requerimientos del hardware, los podemos ver en:
http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1641203&tid=124

Destacamos dentro del post:
"Slashdot currently has 16 web servers all of which are running Red Hat 9. Two serve static content: javascript, images, and the front page for non logged-in users. Four serve the front page to logged in users. And the remaining ten handle comment pages. All web servers are Rackable 1U servers with 2 Xeon 2.66Ghz processors, 2GB of RAM, and 2x80GB IDE hard drives. The web servers all NFS mount the NFS server, which is a Rackable 2U with 2 Xeon 2.4Ghz processors, 2GB of RAM, and 4x36GB 15K RPM SCSI drives. (CT: Just as a note, we frequently shuffle these 16 servers from one task to another to handle changes in load or performance. Next week's software story will explain in much more detail exactly what we do with those machines. Also as a note- the NFS is read-only, which was really the only safe way to use NFS around 1999 when we started doing it this way.)"

En un castellano bastante regular:
podemos verlo aquí.

Su enlace origianal, en inglés (recomendado)