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Network Administrator
looking to run a high performance web server and I was wondering if BSDi was
a good OS to run a web server from.. Or what is the Most Recommended OS to
run a secure and fast web server?
All suggestions are more than welcome.
Lester A. Mesa
lm...@qualserve.net
QualServe, LLC
http://www.qualserve.net
Network Admin/Web Developer
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Scott Rothgaber
> I'm currently looking to run a high performance web server and I was
> wondering if BSDi was a good OS to run a web server from..
No complaints here! I seem to recall seeing some BSDI propaganda that
says that a minimally equipped P90 running Apache on BSDI can saturate
a T3 with Web traffic, about 43,000,000 hits a day. Try *that*
on IIS/NT - if you can get it to run for 24 hours, that is! ;-)
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Joshua Covington
be a little bias. I would recommend that you make an educated decision and
temporarily join lists related to a couple of different Operating Systems.
Joshua Covington
At 04:01 PM 5/24/99 +0100, Network Administrator wrote:
>Howdy, I have a question for those experience BSDi users... I'm currently
>looking to run a high performance web server and I was wondering if BSDi was
>a good OS to run a web server from.. Or what is the Most Recommended OS to
>run a secure and fast web server?
>
>All suggestions are more than welcome.
>
>Lester A. Mesa
>lm...@qualserve.net
>QualServe, LLC
>http://www.qualserve.net
>Network Admin/Web Developer
>
se...@plethora.net
>On 24 May 99, at 16:01, Network Administrator wrote:
>> wondering if BSDi was a good OS to run a web server from..
>No complaints here! I seem to recall seeing some BSDI propaganda that
>says that a minimally equipped P90 running Apache on BSDI can saturate
>a T3 with Web traffic, about 43,000,000 hits a day. Try *that*
>on IIS/NT - if you can get it to run for 24 hours, that is! ;-)
It depends on the hits, of course.
That said, well, the only performance problems I've ever had are these:
* I can't afford a RAID controller, or enough disks to do a big SCSI splice.
* If I keep 20,000 messages in a single MH inbox, it can take a minute to
grep 'em all.
I recently tweaked the kernel on my personal-use desktop to use about 30MB
for buffer cache. The end result is that the first grep of an entire MH
mailbox takes about a minute, and the second and third refinement passes take
under *2 seconds*. I love it.
-s
se...@plethora.net
rites:
>I use and love both BSDI and Red Hat Linux. This is a BSDI list so we may
>be a little bias. I would recommend that you make an educated decision and
>temporarily join lists related to a couple of different Operating Systems.
Just a clarification: While there may be BSDI staff who read this list (I
admit it: I'm one of them...), there is no official presence. I have read
this list for a couple of years, and I'm reading it because I run a small ISP
(plethora.net) using a BSDI server, not because I'm an employee. This list
is *not* a representation of official BSDI positions or policy. (Nor is
anything I say here. If I were representing BSDI, you betcha I'd be using
an @bsdi.com address.)
Of course, it is biased. But I don't think anyone's expecting a 'foo-users'
list not to be biased towards foo. I use a MIDI program called 'Logic', and
someone recently wrote to 'logic-users' asking what a good sequencer was.
You'd be *amazed* at the consistency of the responses.
In my experience, you'll find that a lot of us use multiple systems. I spent
about two months running Red Hat on my laptop; I needed it for the Neomagic
drivers at the time, but otherwise, I didn't like it much. These days, I'm
running NetBSD on my laptop, mostly for USB support.
The fact is, a variety of systems experience *is* a good thing. I feel that
I make better use of the features of each system I use, due to my experience
with other systems. The years I spent using SVR4 on an Amiga changed the way
I understood Unix; mostly for the better, because things that were "natural"
or "easy" in that environment, but hard in BSD environments, became part of
my repertoire. Sure, they're not as easy - but at least I *think* of them.
Another point for the original poster: Are you wondering if BSDI is a "good"
system or if it's "the best" system? "the best" is something on which you'll
find a lot of debate, and no hard answers. "good"? Certainly! I think
everything currently available except NT can make a reasonable claim of being
"good" for servers. I like BSD/OS a lot, myself.
TTSG
> On 24 May 99, at 16:01, Network Administrator wrote:
>
> > I'm currently looking to run a high performance web server and I was
> > wondering if BSDi was a good OS to run a web server from..
>
> No complaints here! I seem to recall seeing some BSDI propaganda that
> says that a minimally equipped P90 running Apache on BSDI can saturate
> a T3 with Web traffic, about 43,000,000 hits a day. Try *that*
> on IIS/NT - if you can get it to run for 24 hours, that is! ;-)
>
how they came up with that. Ask them and they never could justify it.
Tuc/TTSG