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▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#Origins
Email from early January, 1996:
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Alta Vista is a very large project, requiring the cooperation of at
least 5 servers, configured for searching huge indices and handling
a huge Internet traffic load. The initial hardware configuration
for Alta Vista is as follows:
Alta Vista — AlphaStation 250 4/266
4 GB disk
196 MB memory
Primary web server for gotcha.com
Queries directed to WebIndexer or NewsIndexer
NewsServer — AlphaStation 400 4/233
24 GB of RAID disks
160 MB memory
News spool from which news index is generated
Serves articles (via http) to those without news server
NewsIndexer — AlphaStation 250 4/266
13 GB disk
196 MB memory
Builds news index using articles from NewsServer
Answers news index queries from Alta Vista
Spider — DEC 3000 Model 900 (replacement for Model 500)
30 GB of RAID disk
1GB memory
Collects pages from the web for WebIndexer
WebIndexer — Alpha Server 8400 5/300
210 GB RAID disk (expandable)
4 GB memory (expandable)
4 processors (expandable)
Builds the web index using pages sent by Spider.
Answers web index queries from Alta Vista
