[ale] Fault Tolerant High Read Rate System Configuration

[Mike Harrison]

>> throughput, primarily read access (95% read, 5% write). We have over 6,000
>> people continually accessing 1,132,829 Million (as of today) small (<1M)

That shouldn't even be significant load on modern server class hardware.

Make sure you let the browsers cache the house pictures...

Circa 1992-3 I built and ran "CHRIS" the Chattanooga Housing and Realty 
Info System using TBBS, TDBS, a 16 port digiboard.. and had all of several 
county property tax databases and the local Realtor(tm) system running
on a single 486dx266  - The images were FIF's (Fractal Image Format)
and displayed pretty well at modem speeds. The trick to system performance
was indexing. It took about 10-20 hours to build indexes.