Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:45:26 -0400 From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@razorfish.com> To: OCD Support <support@kawartha.com> Cc: mholloway@flashmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotbot = NT+IIS4 Message-ID: <199906102245.SAA08093@yaga.razorfish.com> In-Reply-To: <37602F86.A37C72A9@kawartha.com> References: <37602d49.c0.0@flashmail.com> <37602F86.A37C72A9@kawartha.com>
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There are some large sites that run on NT. They usually use large clusters with load balancers. One thing that NT is good at is making process data available so that when they crash, the load balancer knows that the machine is down. As for NT Enterprise, there not much more to it. It can use more than 2 GB RAM and more than 4 processors. But NT Workstation, Server, and Enterprise all have the same kernel, its a licensing thing. In fact, you can convert NT Workstation into Server with some registry hacks. -Hans >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...<smiles> > >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 > > | || ||| || r a z o r f i s h , new york hans-christoph steiner [ network systems manager ] phone >> 212.798.6432 pager >> 888.433.4970 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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