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Bikestore.com
Turbolinux Cluster Server
Bikestore.com names Turbolinux 'leader of peleton' of high-availability Web solutions
Challenge: Bikestore.com, North America's top bicycle portal, needed a highly available server solution that would never leave the site's visitors bogged down in heavy traffic.
Solution: "After examining several scalable, high-availability options, Cluster Server from Turbolinux seemed like the best solution on the market," said Allyn Fay, systems administrator of the Boulder, Colorado-based bikestore.com. Working with Turbolinux technical experts to address their specific needs, bikestore.com selected a three-node Cluster Server running on an off-the-shelf commodity server-rack system of ASL workstations, each with 256MB RAM.
Fay said it took just one day to set up Turbolinux Cluster Server. Building the entire system - including testing and benchmarking - took three months and cost $12,000 "versus six figures going with a Sun or NT solution," he added. "With Turbolinux, we definitely surpassed most of the benchmarks that were published for Apache on Linux. We have yet to come close to reaching the Turbolinux Cluster Server system's limitations as far as traffic goes, but it's nice to know that we could always handle a sudden spike."
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Birkenstock
Turbolinux Cluster Server
Birkenstock Hits the Ground Running with Turbolinux Cluster Server 6
Challenge: Birkenstock USA launched its e-commerce Web site in March 2000 and immediately received a large volume of traffic and Birkenstock shoe orders. In anticipation of high traffic volumes for the upcoming holiday season, the company planned Web site expansion, email campaigns and magazine advertising. It quickly became apparent that Birkenstock was going to outgrow its single 350 MHz Pentium III server and needed a plan.
Solution: Birkenstock wanted to implement Linux and, after careful research, chose Turbolinux Cluster Server 6 to meet their aggressive growth plans. The company liked the scalability, fault tolerance and load balancing features of the Turbolinux solution, as it was the most stable and cost-effective means of handling the expected high traffic volume.
"The Turbolinux Cluster Server 6 architecture will let Birkenstock grow the system as needed," said Kevin Johnson, President of Deluxe Digital Media (DDM), the company who manages the Web site. "That's important not only because of the up coming holiday season, but also because more of the independent Birkenstock retail outlets are turning to the Web site to handle their e-commerce needs."
"Computers go down," said DDM Administrator Lee Middaugh. "With Turbolinux Server Cluster 6, if there is a problem with one computer, the system automatically rolls its functions over to another machine. That means if a machine goes down in the middle of the night, I don't have to go in and fix it right away, I can sleep. It's going to take a lot of stuff to go wrong for us to have any IT downtime."
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Miralab
Turbolinux Cluster Server
Asia's Leading Internet Incubator Company Turbocharges Family of Dot-com Start-ups
Challenge: Miralab, one of Asia's leading Internet incubator companies, wanted a robust, high availability and load balancing software solution for its Web servers to host the Internet e-commerce sites for the dot com start-up companies it funds and manages. Miralab evaluated different hardware switching and proprietary UNIX systems alternatives and found them too expensive, or that they required long-term vendor lock in.
Solution: Cluster Server, a software solution, offered an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution that can handle the high volume of traffic to Miralab's client company Web sites. Miralab runs Cluster Server on a farm of inexpensive Intel Pentium III servers as the front end to the Oracle 8i database hosted on Sun Enterprise 3500 servers. "Turbolinux has a leading position in the Asian market and is a leader in clustering software," said Jung S. Lee, CEO of Miralab. "We are confident that we can build successful online businesses around a partnership with Turbolinux."
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Trump Plaza
Turbolinux Cluster Server
Trump Plaza's Web administrator: 'Turbolinux Cluster Server trumps Unix'
Challenge: Trump Plaza wanted load balancing and high availability for its Web sites. The costs for clustering solutions from proprietary UNIX vendors approached $100,000 and exceeded the IT department's budget.
Solution: Trump's out-sourced Web site management company set up a pair of Intel servers with 450Mhz Pentium-III CPUs, 256Mb RAM, and 10Gb of hard drive running Cluster Server. The total cost was under $10,000. Trump deployed two commercial production Web sites on the cluster - http://www.trumpemployment.com/, a new site, and http://www.trumpplaza.com/, which was transitioned from the company's SGI server.
"My analysis indicates that about 40 sites - the vast majority of the sites the company hosted - could easily be transitioned to the cluster," said Dan Birchall of Facilities Management Group, the company that managed Trump's Web sites. "For under $2,000 for an unlimited-node license, a Cluster Server is a full order of magnitude cheaper than a name-brand UNIX cluster. Yes, you heard me right. Even if you buy brand-new Pentium-III systems, load them to the gills with RAM and disk, buy Cluster Server and pay someone to install it for you, the price per node comes in somewhere around $3,000 - or less."
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WorldLingo, Inc.
Turbolinux Cluster Server 6
WorldLingo uses Turbolinux Cluster Server 6 to turn Babel into Sales
Challenge: WorldLingo, the leading provider of instant translations of foreign language through the Internet, is in the midst of tremendous growth and needed a web solution which would scale to meet the ample traffic they anticipate.
Solution: WorldLingo found the answer to its challenge with Turbolinux. WorldLingo runs its business on three clusters, all using Dell PowerEdge 2450 servers running Turbolinux Cluster Server 6. One cluster hosts WorldLingo's Apache Web servers, another cluster powers the application servers and the third is home to the servers that do the actual translations.
"Turbolinux Cluster Server is based on Linux, so it's stable technology," says WorldLingo's CEO Phil Scanlan. "We wanted a system that could handle high volume, and that would scale easily and affordably. Turbolinux has given us exactly what we were looking for."
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