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#18 11:09:00

• Back to the drawing board: ideal system requirements
  
  
  • Distributed: server should transparently reside near the end user, while not eating up unnecessary bandwidth
    
    
  • Fault-tolerant: system should be able to provide continuous service through either a planned or unplanned outage of any component
    
    
  • Inexpensive: build redundantly using less expensive FreeBSD-based PC architecture, yet total cost for servers should remain less than that of traditional non-Intel based UNIX server hardware