Charles, unless I've misunderstood your comments, I think you've completely
missed the point here...
Andrew and Nick were talking about the number of boxes the web pages run on,
not the amount of content, or number of domains. Just because you have
everything on one big box doesn't mean it cannot "grow" or be linked in
_exactly_ the same as way content hosted on multiple boxes.
A large number of boxes does not in any way indicate that lots of people
have something to say. It indicates you've got a large number of boxes ;-)
and, probably, a bigger job managing them (instead of getting on with other
stuff like new, innovative ideas).
Regarding your claim about "the more servers you have the more likely to
have a larger proportion of your content indexed", presumably you are
misquoting from Danny Sullivan's talk about search engines limiting the
number of pages indexed *per domain* - a search engine has no idea how many
*boxes* those domains come from.
Regards,
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> The trick is not to try and stick everything in one physical
> machine so you
> hope you can present concise information. The challenge is to let it grow
> and spend your time pulling together the various entities. I guess it all
> depends on your starting point and which side of the fence you are on.
>
> In some ways a large number of servers (which have some content) indicates
> that the people who set them up have something to say as opposed to those
> whom you've got to keep beating up to get them to produce a
> couple of pages.
>
> On a techical matter, it is also likely that the more servers you have the
> more likely to have a larger proportion of your content indexed by search
> engines.
>
> I recall that the arguments of trying to put everything on as few
> machines as
> possible in order to "manage" them keep cropping up every year or
> so. This
> is old fashioned management. Whilst the technology changes and the web is
> something completely new you need new, equally innovative ideas
> to manage it.
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