[KLUG Members] Re servers' setup

[Adam Williams]

>Unix box to which everything ties back to:
>AIX v4.3 (running Korn shell, blah)

Not bad, that is fairly recent.  Is it a decent box?
 
>Web server:
>Dual processor Xeon,
>1gig RAM, 
>RAID5 (36gig x 4) 
>5 ethernet ports (1 single and 2 duplexed server NICs- awesome).
>MS SQL server 7 AND 8 (SQL 2000) using Openlink Generic 32bit driver
>Dell PowerVault 120T (very cool)
>W2K 
>Web Site:
>ASP, Javascript, HTML

Holy crap!  I hope your site generates TONS of traffic.  You've got 
this jacked into a T3 or metropolitan ethernet?  If it is plugged into 
a lowly T1 I'm gonna fall off my chair laughing.  Holy crap! 

Your using both SQL 7 and SQL8, both? Why? (Might explain the 1gb of RAM).

Your running IIS on the same box as M$-SQL server?  Have you port scanned 
this guy from the outside world?

Did some consultant make mad kick back on the hardware referral for this 
job?  PowerVault boxes aren't cheap,  or weren't the last time I checked 
(these are the rack mounted front hot-swap drive units, yes?).