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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:16:53 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3246D415.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <jimhill.843028011@kitsune> <51pbm6$97o@web.ddp.state.me.us> <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@phoenix.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130986 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27763 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43969 Geoff Mohler wrote: > We're bringing online *it looks like* one of the "Gentleman's Magazines" > WWW sites online here ourselves. > > We're a big BSD shop, but there is no way I would use FreeBSD for more > than a 100+hit/second > site. > > Thats why I bought a SGI Challenge-L *grin*. I think you really need to talk to BEST Internet, over at http://www.best.net - they might even have a few Challenge machines to sell at reasonable prices, having already tried this! :) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project