Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:06:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: simonr@roland.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD as a web server Message-ID: <XFMail.980811090625.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <012A8881D8E0D0119D7C006097529861109943@nt1>
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On 11-Aug-98 simonr@roland.co.uk wrote: > 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. FreeBSD is an independant continuation of the BSD project. As the name suggests, it is *free*. You may download it from http://www.freebsd.org Information is availible on that site that explains the history of FreeBSD, and how to set it up. If you would prefer, you can purchase FreeBSD on CD-ROM. See http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/freebsd.htm It is very much suited as a web server. Yahoo is a FreeBSD site, as well as Pair.com (largest independent web hosting service). Apache runs quite well. Furthermore, many add-ons availible to Apache will work on FreeBSD. That machine you will be putting it on will require FreeBSD-current to use the dual processors (SMP). It is the cutting-edge development system. It will be released as FreeBSD 3.0 on or about October 15th. Overall, with hits every 2-3 minutes, this machine is overkill. A machine of that size could host many sites. The critical matter is the connection speed to the net. Unless you are serving huge amounts of information, a old Pentium-200 with about 128 Megs RAM would handle it nicely. One of our sites is hosted on a Pentium II 266 Mhz (512Kb cache), 128Mb RAM, 5.8Gb total disk. It handles 250 sites, and the load is only: 9:05AM up 189 days, 22 hrs, 12 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.17, 0.15 Patrick Gardella To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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