Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:43:11 -0700 From: Dan Mahoney <dan@ns1.wolf.com> To: Darren Martin <darren@premier1.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980828204311.22379@ns1.wolf.com> In-Reply-To: <000701bdd2eb$6b0cf240$ee7581ce@pavilion>; from Darren Martin on Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 06:21:57PM -0700 References: <000701bdd2eb$6b0cf240$ee7581ce@pavilion>
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> I am someone looking to not only host business sites, but also get set up to become an internet access provider for my area and sell dial-up access accounts. Is FreeBSD capable of handling dial-up networking users and virtual domains(or DNS). If so, how does it compare with Microsoft IIS. Any info. you could give me would be appreciated. Not only *can* FreeBSD do what you, it is possibly the *best* choice for the job. It will handle dialup users, web hosting, virtual web domains and virtual e-mail domains - just about anything you want to do. Comparing FreeBSD and Apache to IIS running on NT is like comparing a 60's VW Beetle to a Mercedes S-Class. The MicroSloth Beetle - um, excuse me, web server - is a huge collection of security holes hidden in a mas of bad programming. I work for a newspaper and ISP in Southern California. We run almost all of our services on Unix, except for a single NT box for a vertical-market product we purchased. I did some benchmark testing between NT Server 4.0/IIS and the FreeBSD box at my desk. The FreeBSD box at my desk was able to sustaintwice the data throughput of the NT box. Not impressive enough? Consider this - the NT machine was a Pentium Pro 233 with 128 MB RAM, while the FreeBSD machine was a Pentium 120 with 32 MB RAM. Cool, huh? I will be travelling to Canada early in October to assist a new ISP up there get his servers configured. I anticipate having this ISP fully configured and operating in about a tenth the time I'd need to set him up with NT, and the end result will deliver *way* better performance than he could ever expect to see from any MicroSloth product! If you have any specific questions, please feel free to e-mail me directly. Dan Mahoney dan@wolf.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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