March 17th, 1999. Laurel, MD. Linux Online, the first stop for Linux
information on the net, is pleased to announce the completion of an
important series of equipment upgrades as part of our efforts to
better serve world wide users interested in the Linux operating
system. These upgrades will allow Linux Online to meet the demand
of web users for at least the next 2 years, as well as providing
higher availability for the resources we offer.
“I was surprised to find the number of component producers that
were interested in supporting our efforts at Linux Online,” says
Michael McLagan, owner of the linux.org domain. “Similar requests
made 18 months ago were unsuccessful. All representatives of the
companies I spoke with were aware and interested in what the Linux
community is doing. It provides additional confirmation that Linux
is being accepted as the high quality operating system it has
become.”
We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following
companies. Each was selected based on their reputation for
providing high quality products. We encourage the Linux community
to support these companies as they have supported our efforts here.
We are confidant that users will find the same level of
receptiveness and support that we did as we assembled our
systems.
Crucial Technology, a
division of Micron, supplied 256M PC100 SDRAM/ECC DIMMs.
Linux Hardware Solutions
provided Intel Pentium II 450MHz, 512k cache CPUs.
Penguin Computing
provided additional SC750-A chassis and technical assistance.
Seagate provided Metalist Pro
9G drives for each system and Barracuda 18G drives for a RAID5
array for the ftp server.
SuperMicro provided us
with several of their Dual Pentium II motherboards (P6DBU), Adaptec
ARO-1130C RAIDPort cards and chassis (SC750-A and SC801-A).
Additional components were purchased from various retailers.
Combining these systems with Linux, Apache, MySQL, custom
programming and patches for software RAID and virtual server
support has sharply improved Linux Online’s ability to provide
content. Prior to these upgrades, time to serve web pages in the
range of 2-3 minutes were being reported to us by visitors on the
internet. Using the same site design with the new hardware has
allowed us to reduce these times to 2-3 seconds (times are based on
T1 access to the net). An upcoming site design change will allow us
to reduce these times even further, providing better support to
users with modem connections.
Additional information on the systems and network architecture
is available on the Linux Online web site at System
Information.
Michael McLagan
Linux Online!
The first stop for Linux information on the net!
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