Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:40 pm
http://slashdot.org/faq/tech.shtmlhawleyjr wrote:Roja, out of curiosity, where did you get this stat?
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http://slashdot.org/faq/tech.shtmlhawleyjr wrote:Roja, out of curiosity, where did you get this stat?
I was replying to this:Bill H wrote:Well, if it makes the guy feel good to say "Hey, I've got 49 servers running my site" and he can afford it, what's wrong with that? Why should he turn any of them off?
Bill H wrote:On the other hand, it's his money, and that's your definition of better.Because he could use the money for much better things,
On the contrary, I specifically said:Bill H wrote:For some years I used to lose clients by being very expert (and arrogant) and telling them what they ought to do and how they ought to run their business.
Notice - document first, then present the conclusion. The thread was specifically asking what our thoughts were on the setup and how we would handle it. Its not being arrogant to answer the question - its being on-topic.Roja wrote:If I had a client who gave me the same list of infrastructure to power the same list of needs, I would benchmark, profile, and more. If those numbers added up to my initial impression, I would absolutely advise him to shut many of them off.
I got the Alexa stats from their site ranking page, and the slashdot infrastructure info from http://slashdot.org/faq/tech.shtml .hawleyjr wrote:Roja, out of curiosity, where did you get this stat?
Lying, exaggerating, over-stating, and misunderstanding are all potentials that are laid bare by the simple act of measurement.Grim... wrote:Why has no-one considered the fact that he might be lying about the amount of servers he needs?
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We see the difference.Bill H wrote:Can no one see that there is a difference between expressing an onpinin about how one would do things oneself, or expressing the needed parameters. and saying what someone else should do?
Flat out, we are not telling him what to do. We are answering the original poster, who asked what WE think. We answered.Bill H wrote:Who are we to be telling somebody else what to do? That is what my point is.
On the contrary, its a very reasonable position, and it answers the original poster directly. There is a good rationale behind that suggestion, and it is in fact, what that person would suggest.Bill H wrote:I was saying that the flat statement "he should shut 46 of them down" was not appropriate to civilized discourse.
Your problem isn't with the posters responding appropriately to the original question. Your issue is with the original question being asked.Bill H wrote:It is not the place of one person to tell another person what "he should do." There are way too many people in this world whose mission is telling other people how they should live and what they should do. It causes ill feeling and even war. Telling me what you believe is one thing, telling me what to do is a different thing.
Did you not read that part?My remarks actually were meant light-heartedly,
But he's right, man. We are not telling that person what to do, we're merely stating our opinions.Grim... wrote:Jesus, man, let it go.