From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 05:46:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA25091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA25083 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA04580; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:46:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808111246.FAA04580@implode.root.com> To: simonr@roland.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a web server In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:47:34 BST." <012A8881D8E0D0119D7C006097529861109943@nt1> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:46:49 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I was recently recommended to run an apache web server on BSD UNIX so that >we could host our own web site. I want to know if FreeBSD is BSD or if it is >a cut down version of a BSD version that is for sale. If it is, would it be >suitable to base a web server such as apache on? We currently get hits on >our site approximately every two-three minutes. We would be running it on a >dual pentium II 333 MHz with 256-512 Mb ram and a RAID controller >controlling3-4 hard drives. > >If there is a version of BSD for sale I would appreciate it if you could >send me a web address at which i could get information a prices. FreeBSD is a full version of BSD "UNIX" and comes with all standard utilities and a whole lot more. A hit every two-three minutes is very low WWW traffic. Moderate levels would be in the two or three hits per second, with heavy being more than 10 per second (or more than a million/day). With FreeBSD, your hardware should be capable of heavy traffic without much trouble. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message