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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
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steve farrell <spfarrel@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> writes:

>JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) writes:

>how about NFS on a 100base-T seperate subnet?

Why bother with a bunch of front-end web "servers" if all they do
is translate HTTP requests into NFS requests? You might as well
put the HTTP server on the thing serving NFS to them.

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