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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI as WEB server
Date: 20 Jun 1995 15:10:39 GMT
Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies
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dhoyt@pcix.com wrote:
>>   javier5@ibm.net writes:
>>  I have spent some time doing research as of what Unix to get for a
>>  WEB server. I am seriously considering BSDI and I was wondering what
>>  others thought of this.

[snip]

>We bought BSDI on the facts outlined in you r post, but, we have found the backup lacking..
>
>I will suport BSDI as an Internet Server, does it well, and will continue to..
>
>WWW, better to stick with something that is know to us all..

Umm...  There's a well known men's magazine with a web server running
BSDI and NetSite on a P60 getting 45 hits a second.  Their T1 is 
saturated and the load on the PC is never more than 30%.

Are there any linux boxes out there taking over 750,000 hits a day?