From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 14:31: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.kawartha.com (unix.kawartha.com [204.101.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9185614DE4 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@kawartha.com) Received: from kawartha.com (earth.kawartha.com [204.101.15.14]) by unix.kawartha.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29896; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:29:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37602F86.A37C72A9@kawartha.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:35:02 -0400 From: OCD Support X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mholloway@flashmail.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotbot = NT+IIS4 References: <37602d49.c0.0@flashmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wasn't aware that Hotbot was running NT however I wasn't really looking neither..:) I wouldn't say that Windows NT can't handle high loads of traffic... just not as much or as well as a good Apache server on FreeBSD... My guess is that they are running a large cluster of servers acting as one or via round robin DNS. Paul "Mark L. Holloway" wrote: > How the heck is Hotbot running their entire search engine on a Windows NT 4/IIS > platform? I thought NT couldn't handle that kind of traffic load... Are they > using NT Enterprsie? Or a special HAL from Microsoft maybe? > > Mark > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com > It's Free, Easy, & Fun !!! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message