From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Sep 12 03:09:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16548 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from redfish.go2net.com (redfish.go2net.com [207.178.55.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA16543 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@go2net.com) Received: from marcs by redfish.go2net.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zHmaq-0001KT-00; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:07:48 -0700 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:07:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@redfish To: Terry Lambert cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Starr, Apache, FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199809120849.BAA02823@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you on drugs? Sorry, wrong question to ask Terry... A couple of other mirrors were running Apache too, but that didn't help them. The difference has a lot more to do with the fact that is Yahoo's job and they know what they are doing and can do setups to handle high load, where your typical .gov admin doesn't have a clue. Also, the "runs on an Apache server" is, AFAIK, mostly technically accurate but very misleading to state since, AFAIK, they run a mega hacked 1.1.x Apache that probably doesn't even begin to resemble any publicly available code. (note that "easily keep up" isn't entirely accurate, as they did have serious slowdowns at times; at least they were smart enough to figure out that using a different server/set of servers was smart.) On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > The site www.senate.gov was overrun with Ken Starr report seekers. > > Yahoo, on the other hand, was able to easily keep up with demand. > > www.senate.gov runs on an NCSA server. > > ( http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats ) > > www.yahoo.com runs on an Apache server on FreeBSD. > > > Time for a joint Apache/Yahoo/FreeBSD press release, I think... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message