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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Web Server
Date: 4 Jan 1995 04:22:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3ed4dfINN9rn@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
mark anthony kolesar <kolesar@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>Anybody know if a Pentium 90 with FreeBSD would make a solid commercial Web
>Server with plenty of graphics on a T1 line. How would performance compare to
>say an HP 715 workstation?

I don't know about comparative performance, but both www.freebsd.org
and www.cdrom.com are P5-90 systems running FreeBSD, and they do the job
very well.  www.freebsd.org gets around 15,000 requests a week.

						Jordan