Re: WC:>: web and database server mileage

[Bruce Hart (Hart Consulting)]

Rich,

Linux certainly has been getting a lot of "buzz" lately. I'm personally
aware of several commercial sites that are using NT successfully
(http://www.finehomesandestates.com and http://www.usa.samsungsemi.com),
but to date neither site has needed more than one web server machine and
one database server machine. The Samsung site initially had some database
reliability problems with SQL Server and JDBC, but ever since those
problems were resolved it has been smooth sailing. The
www.finehomesandestates.com site had an HP RAID5 disk array failure, but
hasn't had any other problems with NT or SQL Server.

Are you aware of any benchmarks that show roughly how many hits a typical
Linux PC web server (probably running Apache, I guess) can handle?

Thx,

--bruce

At 08:00 AM 1/23/99 , Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 07:35:38PM -0700, Bruce Hart (Hart Consulting) wrote:
>> leaning toward using dual-processor NT servers (initially one for the web
>
>Use Linux and you will greatly increase the performance, reliability,
>scalability, and security of your systems while simultaneously decreasing
>the initial and continuing costs.  (Or you really want to pay for
>a fully-supported commercial product, use BSDI.)
>
>Use NT and you are setting yourself up for failure.  No analysis that
>any of us could contribute will avoid that.
>
>---Rsk
>Rich Kulawiec
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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