> Apache doesn't have threading (yet).
> If your business depends upon it, you may want to take a look at
> Solaris/Zeus if you are really getting heavy load high traffic.
We serve millions of hits a day off of a small farm of FreeBSD servers
running Apache+php for our dynamic content. Thttpd for our static
pages (images, etc).
Our farm used to be linux, but FreeBSD has been better. Linux 2.2
would flake out under extreme load and not recover. FreeBSD gets
stressed under extreme load as well, but it recovers. If you know
redhat better and can't use Freebsd, that is fine. It might save
_you_ more time to use redhat as the savings in administration could
easlily be overturned if you don't know freebsd better than redhat.
Don't get me wrong, on a personal note, I love linux (the most, I
might add).
I think the single most importand piece of software that saves us the
most money is thttpd. That all runs in a single thread and uses
select to pump out content. Since it is a single thread, it never
chews up tons of memory forking children. I think our farm would need
to be twice as big if we tried to use apache for our static content.
I have nothing bad to say about apache, don't get me wrong. This is
simply the way that works best for us. Our DB lives on a separate quad
sparc and all of our content is centralized and remotely NFS mounted.
Jeremy
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