Zorin =^o.o^=Jul 7, 2023

@tilton Oh damn I remember the "WebForce" branding and SGI trying to sell Indys as webdev systems.

I remember thinking at the time that an Indy was so overkill for that task!

Show threadJames RedekopJul 7, 2023
@zorinlynx @tilton we had one of these at UUNet Canada when I ran web hosting there. It... wasn't that useful. We ended up hosting everything on PC clones from Sun.
Show threadZorin =^o.o^=

@tzoq @tilton Yup. In the end it all boiled down to the fact that even though an Indy made an excellent web server, so did that Linux box at a quarter the price.

And though it took some time for the industry to start trusting Linux, they eventually did. And the rest is history.

Jul 7, 2023 at 3:22pmWeb
Show threadJames RedekopJul 7, 2023

@zorinlynx @tilton We ran about 200 sites each on the Sun boxes running SunOS x86, and 20 sites each on the Sun boxes running Windows.

UUNet US was amazed that we got 20 sites running on the Windows boxes -- they'd never managed more than 5.