From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 18 05:50:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14254 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 05:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA14249 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 05:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 2515 invoked from network); 18 Oct 1998 12:49:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.2) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 18 Oct 1998 12:49:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3629E3FD.210F0B1B@pipeline.ch> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:50:05 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD and Apache at Yahoo! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In Apache Week issue 134 (16th October 1998) they wrote: -snip- The first talk on the second day was by _John Patrick_ from IBM ([9]picture). He talked about his view of how the Internet will evolve. In the last session, _David Filo_ from Yahoo! showed how Yahoo! has used open source software ([10]picture). They started by using commercial operating systems and home-written web servers, but had problems with vendors not being able to scale to the huge number of hits they soon received. They moved to FreeBSD so they could read and if necessary tweak the operating system code. They also use Apache on most of their servers and find that the majority of the performance limitations come from the application layer software. -snip- To read the whole story go to http://www.apacheweek.com/ -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message