Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:46:49 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: simonr@roland.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a web server Message-ID: <199808111246.FAA04580@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:47:34 BST." <012A8881D8E0D0119D7C006097529861109943@nt1>
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>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
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