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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!hookup!olivea!wetware!white.dogwood.com!white.dogwood.com!not-for-mail From: dave@white.dogwood.com (Dave Cornejo) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Web Server Date: 3 Jan 1995 21:02:13 -0800 Organization: Dogwood Media Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3eda4l$p9i@white.dogwood.com> References: <3ed4dfINN9rn@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: white.dogwood.com In article <3ed4dfINN9rn@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mark anthony kolesar <kolesar@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >Anybody know if a Pentium 90 with FreeBSD would make a solid commercial Web >Server with plenty of graphics on a T1 line. How would performance compare to >say an HP 715 workstation? > >Mark Walnut Creek CDROM hosts its' Web server on a 90MHz Pentium (as well as 500 FTP connections). It seems to hold up fine under the load. Actually, I suspect that the bottleneck will be the T1 - graphics eat up a *lot* of bandwidth and a popular site would quickly melt down on a T1. Anyways, invest in lots of RAM and the fastest disks you can get. dave -- Dave Cornejo There is nothing so subtle Dogwood Media as the obvious Fremont, California