From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 8:22:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natmail2.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15EBA37B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p3E9C1FDB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (p3E9C1FDB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.156.31.219]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA17356; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:22:29 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:23:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Moritz Hardt To: Tim Moore Cc: Questions Subject: RE: FreeBSD Web Server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh proffessional webservers use special hardware, which is incredible expensive, especially for non-comercial use. ( for example yahoo gets 18 milion hits a day too much for your old pentium 75 in the corner of your room) the most important thing is RAM and the right connection. so i suppose a athlon-700 with at least 512mb and a T3 clould handle more than 100000 hits a day. but im really not sure. Moritz - Keep Lynx Alive! On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Tim Moore wrote: -> ->Ok what about a server that takes a ungodly amount of hits because right now ->we cannot speculate on how much we are going to get hit. Say how much a web ->server would get hit if it advertised during the Superbowl? -> -> ->-----Original Message----- ->From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ->[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andresen,Jason ->R. ->Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:07 AM ->To: Tim Moore ->Cc: Questions ->Subject: Re: FreeBSD Web Server -> -> ->Tim Moore wrote: ->> ->> Anyone running a web server that takes 400 hits an hour? If so what kind ->of ->> hardware is it running on? -> ->That's only like 6.5 hits per minute. Unless you are running some ->extremely resource hungry cgi scripts just about anything should be able ->to serve that. Just about any old Pentium should be plenty. -> ->-- -> _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ -> / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org -> / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those ->/_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. -> -> ->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 -> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message