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From: "'Alfred Perlstein'" <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Erin <Kahn@deadbbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Scaling Apache?
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* Erin <Kahn@deadbbs.com> [000828 11:41] wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > 
> > * James E. Pace <jepace@pobox.com> [000828 11:23] wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've got a 2 way Pentium III / 550MHz system with 1GB of 
> > memory running 
> > > 4.1-STABLE.
> > > 
> > > For a project I'm working on, I need to have a webserver 
> > handle thousands
> > > (and 10's of thousands) of simultaneous connections.  To do 
> > this, it 
> > > seems the best way is to have lots and LOTS of apache's 
> > httpds running 
> > > at all times.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > apache is entirely useless for high amounts of traffic, you should be
> > investigating another webserver or looking at a 
> > clustering/load-balancing
> > solution.
> 
> This almost scares me. If apache can not handle it, where do you go? IIS?

Erm, can one say "out of the frying pan and into the fire?"

> It might be time to start looking into apache 2, but it's still in alpha.
> 
> I tend to agree with Alfred (no suprise there), you need to look into a
> server farm with load-balancing.

Or a decent performing web server.  Zues, thttpd, roxen (there's others).

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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