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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10640 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:13195 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3902 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!news1.oakland.edu!newshub.gmr.com!news.delcoelect.com!c23peg From: c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Perry Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Date: 1 Aug 1995 22:54:01 GMT Organization: Delco Electronics Corp. Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vmba9$e18@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uo1mt$5uv@picard.cistron.nl> <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: koptsy15.delcoelect.com Originator: c23peg@koptsy15 In article <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net>, root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) writes: |> In article <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com>, |> Tom Czarnik <czarnik@vista.netmanage.com> wrote: |> >In article <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu>, gillham@andrews.edu says... |> > |> >>Not quite 256... :-) I suppose at night that might change, but you |> >>didn't clarify that. Also, ftp.cica.indiana.edu has 2GB of disk, not |> >>40GB+ like ftp.cdrom.com. I'm not arguing FreeBSD vs Linux, I'm just |> >>saying that ftp.cica.indiana.edu and ftp.cdrom.com are in a different |> >>class as ftp servers go. |> > |> >ftp.cdrom.com is that busy because it primarily acts as a mirror |> >for other archives, whereas CICA's ftp server is the real archive. |> > |> ftp.cdrom.com is running FreeBSD and deals with the load very efficiently. |> (The CPU plant is just a single 100MHz pentium.) |> |> John |> dyson@root.com |> Everytime I try to ftp cica.edu, I get kicked out because it's overloaded (at max number of users). Everytime I try to ftp cdrom.com, I get in. Hum... which system would you rather use? I don't know what the cica.edu hardware is, but cdrom.com must be doing something right! (I am a linux user but look forward to trying FreeBSD). -- c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com "I wouldn't have made it up if it wasn't true."