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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!dns.crocker.com!usenet From: "Nathan J. Kurz" <nate@tripod.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server? Date: 7 Nov 1995 21:35:21 GMT Organization: Tripod, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <47ojep$rr1@dns.crocker.com> References: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: trivet.tripod.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.8 i486) To: seibel@mojones.com X-URL: news:47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:18741 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8285 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:6040 Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com> wrote: >I have to pick out a machine and OS to buy to replace our old Sun 4/260 which >is our www server (and everything else, mail, ftp, gopher) and have narrowed >it down to a well equipped Pentium running either Linux or Free BSD. I was >leaning toward Linux but was told that the networking code in Free BSD is more >robust and therefore better for running a www server than Linux. Is this still >true? I've been wondering the same thing. We are currently running Apache under SunOS on a Sparc 10/51, and it's been flaking out on us in strange ways. None of us really know Suns well, so we are planning to switch to Linux (on a Pentium) once the lease expires on the Sparc. The P133 we have runs a lot closer to a Sparc 10 than I would have thought, and the price/performance is _much_ higher. But I keep hearing the same things, probably from the same sources. We run Linux and Apache on a number of our other (less heavily hit) servers and like the combination a lot. But are we shooting ourself in the foot to use it on a heavily used site? Is FreeBSD that much better that it is worth the switch? Or is the fact that we can't get a Sparc 10 to work right an omen that we should be picking rock instead of building a website? :) I'd love to hear peoples thoughts too! nate@tripod.com http://www.tripod.com