On Thursday, January 18, 2001, at 10:41 PM, jeremy brand wrote:
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
is there any benchmarks or proof that I should host a high traffic site on a
FREEBSD/APACHE instead of a redhat Linux/Apache server?
I have _heard_ that linux is great under medium load, but does not deal as
well with super-high loads as well as freeBSD. that has not stopped me from
using
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
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.
By the way, there
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:55:12 +, John Hinsley
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Incidentally, the must 2.4 gung ho distro seems to be SuSE, which I rate
well above RedHat in terms of value, support and stability.
I like the way SuSE makes it easy to build and save a custom install
config which can be
Before Microsoft bought it, Hotmail had a FreeBSD/Apache frontend and a
Sun/Solaris backend. Supposedly, corporate wanted MS to move Hotmail to NT,
but supposedly it failed so miserably at serving up 10 million users that
they had to nix those plans. I think Hotmail is running FreeBSD/Apache for
is there any benchmarks or proof that I should host a high traffic site on a
FREEBSD/APACHE instead of a redhat Linux/Apache server?
randy
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From: Ayan R. Kayal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] RE
I have come across numerous reports/tests comparing the various OS's in
terms of raw speed and scalability. There are many conclusions but some
things seem to stick out:
1.) Linux is very well supported and sometimes easier to maintain than the
BSD's (RedHat RPM's etc.)
2.) Linux and FreeBSD
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
By the way, there is a PHP module for thttpd.
Thank you. I know. I haven't had a chance to spend time testing it.
Would anyone recommend it for mission critical environments?
I can't really do that since I have never tried it.
-Rasmus
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I can't really do that since I have never tried it.
I plan on testing it under extreme load eventually. If I do before
someone else does, I'll post my results. But for the mean time, our
set up is working perfectly, so it may be a while.
I'm a big thttpd advocate, so I'd (for no better
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