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#! rnews 1584 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!news.mr.net!scream.ing.com!206.144.140.146 From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <ddb@multilogic.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 30 Oct 96 23:06:07 GMT Organization: MultiLogic Lines: 13 Message-ID: <01bbc6b6$db4377c0$928c90ce@ploor.multilogic.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk><554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> <TGL.96Oct29221138@netcom18.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.multilogic.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138686 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30258 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45193 passme so there I definitely agree with the point that for the vast majority of sites, server horsepower is not what you'll run out of. I will say that I ran a web server for two years on a system too wimpy to support nt (a 386/25 with 8 meg of memory), and using Linux and the NCSA server it worked fine (peaking at around 50,000 URL hits a week, if I recall correctly). I've since upgraded that site to hardware that could marginally support NT (486/33 with 20 meg of memory), and it's still running fine under Linux and NCSA (peaking over 70,000 URL hits a week). It's also easier to remotely administer (I can telnet in from nearly anywhere).