[LINK] Alston's $4m website

[hartr at interweft.com.au]

On  3 Apr, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>> For $4M. So let's do the sums. $4M for the site of 5000 pages is, oh,
>> $800 per page. Since it's possible to get a uni graduate who knows
>> how to push objects around in Dreamweaver for $45 an hour, that means
>> we could have these students spend 17+ hours on each and every page
>> to build the whole site manually.
> 
> How much of that money is the cost of the hardware systems I wonder?

You could get a huge clustered Linux based solution for under 5%
of that $4million...

...but just what sort of ego does Senator Dick Head have to imagine that
his web site will be hit by thousands of people simultaneously?

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