Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:43:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Drew Mouton <drew@etool.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BigTime FreeBSD; was Re: Linux vs. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808201439001.10064-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <B0000170449@redwood.etool.com>
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AFAIK Yahoo! has many web servers doing some sort of DNS round
robin or some sort of load balancing. They are your plain P/Pro boxes -
don't think they are doing SMP as of yet. They are all SCSI however.
Setup like this allows you to have 100 gazillion hits per day
since each machine only gets fraction of hits.
-- Yan
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Drew Mouton wrote:
>Would someone mind sharing some info as far as how the big companies are
>dealing with performance/availability/redundancy issues?
>
>I'm wondering about RAID/RAIC setups and such. How - for instance - did
>Yahoo deal with scaling up to 100gazillion request per day, and still
>maintain the speed and availability that they have?
>
>Drew
>
>it appears that around 8/20/98 1:32 PM, Jan B. Koum said:
>
>> There is not better x86 OS right now to run web server then
>>FreeBSD and folks at www.yahoo.com, www.hotmail.com, www.best.com,
>>www.linkexchange.com, www.this.list.can.go.on.forever.com will tell you
>>so.
>
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