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From: 900RR (900RR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 08:39:13 GMT
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cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin) wrote:


>If you already know NT and you want to learn as you go, expecting
>no more than 300,000 hits per day, go NT

Hmmm,

www.microsoft.com AVERAGES 2,000,000 hits per day from over 9,000
different addresses. 5,000 searches and 100,000 downloads. DAILY.

ftp.microsoft.com handles 300 simultaneous connections with 300,000
file transactions per week.  6,000 different users login per day.

Each server runs Windows NT Server 3.51 (surprise!) and is a quad
Pentium SMP Compaq ProLiant with a CDDI card linked to a T3 line (1 T3
=  44 T1 lines) direct to the Internet. Each box runs this config.

I think Microsoft would be interested in your theories on that 300,000
hit/day barrier, given the fact that they do that in less than 1 hour
at times.

> -- by the time you need
>the things that BSDI has now, you'll make another choice then.

I need SMP support. - When guys, when? I can get SMP boards for just
over a grand. With chips!

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I need threaded server software products, without the "unix
surcharge".

Example:

Netscape Communications Server
Unix=$1295 NT=$495

Netscape Commerce Server
Unix=$2995 NT=$1295

Same products, same capabilities. Why  are the unix versions MORE than
TWICE as much money? Because everything in unix costs LOTS more than
the NT version. Or is completely free. Very strange.

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I need people who can run the network and not demand $70,000/year for
their trouble.

If you're starting an ISP, you need to plan for the day when you're
looking to hire capable people to run it. Very qualified NT personnel
can be hired for half the cost of the average unix "sys admin".

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Unix, and BSDI are cool, but I wouldn't bet MY business on it. No way!