[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<19561f15-0126-46dc-be8b-859f834ac5ac at a12g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
dsnyder <danieldsnyder at gmail.com> writes: 

> The Hardware Behind AltaVista
> 
> 
>    AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk.
>    AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic to the site.
>    They run a custom multi-threaded Web server which sends
>    queries to the Web indexer and News indexer.

>    News Indexer: AlphaServer 600 5/333, 896MB memory, 13 GB
>    disk. This machine keeps an up-to-date index of the news
>    spool: since new articles appear and old articles expire all
>    the time, it is in fact quite busy, even though the index it
>    serves is much smaller than the Web index.
> 
> 
>    News Server: AlphaServer 600 5/333, 896MB memory, 24 GB RAID
>    disks. It maintains a current news spool for the News
>    Indexer. It also serves the articles via http to those of
>    you who don't want to know about news servers but want to
>    read news.

I've got more than that at home now.  :-)