Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:01:34 -0700 From: Mailing List Owner <freebsd@rhall.sc.scruznet.com> To: Moritz Hardt <root@morix.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Web Server Message-ID: <20000906100134.A47553@rhall.sc.scruznet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009061717510.658-100000@morix.morix.de>; from root@morix.de on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:23:33PM %2B0200 References: <NEBBLHLKOLOILJJEMEMLCELLCAAA.tmoore@ventecc.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009061717510.658-100000@morix.morix.de>
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Large scale sites use lots of smaller machines behind a load balancing solution. The thing to watch for, is your application stateless or stateful. If stateless, then any simple round robin type of balancing will work. If stateful, then you will need to stick users to a specific machine, probably based on source ip or cookie. Roland Hall rhall@lightsurf.nospam.com On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:23:33PM +0200, Moritz Hardt wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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