Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 23:40:43 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Miguel Gilly <mgilly@bonsai-studio.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Webserver (long) Message-ID: <37858B5B.8BFE535B@softweyr.com> References: <199907081506.PAA09942@luna.pingnet.ch>
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Miguel Gilly wrote: > > This is a _long_ message about FreeBSD as Webserver, Hardware-Monitoring > support and a Web based configuration of FreeBSD. Hi Miguel. I'm going to toss in a few comments here, but before I do, you should go read my "opening remarks", prepared well in advance of your message, at: http://www.daemonnews.org/199907/d-advocate.html This may enlighten you a bit as to the current state of "gui admin" tools for FreeBSD. This is not to say that none exist, but may give you some insight as to why the pickings are somewhat slim. Let me add that what Sue has written on this topic covered the state of the art pretty well. Administering a UNIX system is much more complex than administering a MacOS system because MacOS was designed to drive a small computer used by "the rest of us" while UNIX was designed by alpha geeks to serve the needs of alpha geeks. Sticking a GUI on top of FreeBSD isn't going to make FreeBSD easier to administer, it's just going to make the 3 or 4 tasks the GUI is actually capable of performing a little less intimidating to GUI users. The number and variety of tasks require to keep a UNIX system humming along is pretty much a constant for any given UNIX system, and GUI-fying *all* of those tasks is a gargantuan undertaking that even Computer Associates won't completely bite off. That said, you should certainly take a look at Cybernet NetMAX, which may just provide what you're looking for. http://www.netmax.com/ As an aside, why would a fledgling web designer determined to build his or her own hosting service NOT want to partner with a good geek? Geeks are people too, whether web designers think so or not, and have many valuable traits to bring to a partnership, like being willing to trade long hours of babysitting web servers in return for some killer bandwidth. ;^) > 1. Redundant, scaleable remote webserver clustering Got that one nailed, too. Eddieware provides exactly this service, and more. Let's take it straight from the horses mouth: Eddie is a 100% software solution written primarily in the functional programming language Erlang (www.erlang.org) and is available for Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD, with Windows NT to come soon. Eddie provides advanced automatic traffic management and configuration of geographically distributed server sites, consisting of one or more Local Area Networks. See http://wwweddie.serc.rmit.edu.au/what.html for a full discussion of what Eddieware is, and http://www.eddieware.org/ in general for the full skinny. Eddieware is distributed under the Erlang Public License, which allows you royalty-free distribution rights and the ability to combine Eddieware into larger works. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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