RE: [PHP] RE: Ethics question...

is there any benchmarks or proof that I should host a high traffic site on a FREEBSD/APACHE instead of a redhat Linux/Apache server? randy -----Original Message----- From: Ayan R. Kayal [mailto:ayan.kayal@yale.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:42 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] RE: Ethics question... Before Microsoft bought it, Hotmail had a FreeBSD/Apache frontend and a Sun/Solaris backend. Supposedly, corporate wanted MS to move Hotmail to NT, but supposedly it failed so miserably at serving up 10 million users that they had to nix those plans. I think Hotmail is running FreeBSD/Apache for the most part, but 5-10% of the servers are Win2K... As for Linux, from what I've heard (haven't tested this out myself or anything), FreeBSD and Sun/Solaris are quite a bit more efficient for web servers. Linux just can't take the number of hits that the other two can. Linux is okay for development, but personally I'd rather run the same system on my development machines as I do for my live machines... O- ~ARK CFO, Hmedicine.com, Inc. I hope it feels so good to be right. There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?... ~Randal from "Clerks" > -----Original Message----- > From: jeremy brand [mailto:jeremy@nirvani.net] > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:22 AM > To: CC Zona > Subject: Re: [PHP] Ethics question... > > > > > Why would Microsoft be using Solaris, or Linux even? > (hint, the same > > > > reason -- their stuff works less good). > > Www.microsoft.com used to be served off of Solaris (where else could > you run a high performance installation of Oracle? ;). Hotmail was > (is) FreeBSD. Anyone would be stupid to not be using linux in their > interprise somewhere. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net