*BSD News Article 81967


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Portugal.EU.net!smdsa.smd.pt!usenet
From: jbs@smd.pt (Jose' Bernardo Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:30:24 GMT
Organization: SMD Informatica SA
Lines: 22
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <32779e07.2319537@smdsa>
References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> <TGL.96Oct29221138@netcom18.netcom.com>
Reply-To: jbs@smd.pt
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc-jbs
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138983 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30329 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45238

tgl@netcom.com (Tom Lane) wrote:

>That argument cuts both ways, of course ... are there any NT or OS/2 HTTP
>servers that can use multiple threads?

ICS (Internet Connection Server 4.xx), which is offered free by IBM for
the non-secure versions. The secure version is paid, but the betas are
free. Of course, I don't know if an NT version exists, but knowing IBM
probably it does.

And it is a breeze to setup and administer remotely...

--
Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any
form, in whole or in part. Copyright, Jose' Bernardo Silva, 1996. 
License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for US$1,000,
or equivalent local currency. Posting without permission constitutes
an agreement to these terms. Please send notices of violation to
jbs@smd.pt, jbs@telepac.pt, and Postmaster@microsoft.com

East Timor is not indoAMnesia!
Indonesians are killing innocent people in East Timor!