Hi all, I'm a sysadmin and a web-programmer at a company in the Netherlands. In the following month we will launch a webshop which will have a estimated 1000 full hits in the first weeks (estimated through calculation of the marketing-departement). I am writing the webshop, and have installed the webserver. Because of issues with our housing, we can't put our HP webserver to use, since it produces to much noise in our very small building. Since we are moving in a few months, we decided to use a HP laptop instead (reasonably fast CPU, 512 Megs) since we had a few to spare.
The toy is currently set up with FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2, Apache 2.0, MySQL 5.0 and PHP-5.0 with all the reasonable modules. Everything is compiled from ports. No changes to the kernel yet, no world-rebuilding done. I trust the laptop enough to get the job done, but I wonder if 6.0-BETA2 will be up for the task. I heard rumours that it should be more stable and faster then 5.4-RELEASE (which I use mostly nowadays), but it IS beta after all. On the other hand, I get the impression that 6.0 is the release of choice for deploying anything on a laptop (considering that darned Pentium-M). Another thing, I do not fully trust the combination of Apache 2.0, MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0, since they are all quite new in the frontlines. This would be a decent testcase for 6.0, but the thing is... I can't afford any crashes (this webshop is considered to settle the future for our company) and we are talking about a laptop here. I will post all problems not yet reported to the list, but if anyone of you would like to share his or her opinion on this matter, please let me know. Will 4.11-RELEASE perhaps be a better choice? I'm not subscribed to the list (allthough I follow the archives now and then) so please CC me. Thanks. -- Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek Pakhuisweg 16-II 6718 XJ Ede T: 06-43536482 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
