Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:22:42 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Tim Moore <tmoore@ventecc.com> Cc: Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Web Server Message-ID: <39B66142.78DC8C03@mitre.org> References: <NEBBLHLKOLOILJJEMEMLCELLCAAA.tmoore@ventecc.com>
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Tim Moore wrote: > > Ok what about a server that takes a ungodly amount of hits because right now > we cannot speculate on how much we are going to get hit. Say how much a web > server would get hit if it advertised during the Superbowl? Well that's an open ended question. If some user on your system posts a 500MB Star Wars Episode II prerelease Mpeg and gets a link from slashdot.org, you are almost certainly not going to have enough bandwidth to handle the requests. (God doesn't have enough bandwidth to handle the traffic that would generate). What you need to do is look at your site and plan a reasonable estimate of how much you expect to grow (this is very difficult to do) over the lifetime of the machine you plan to install and buy your machine according to that. All said, I don't have any hard numbers as to what you can expect and what you will need (are you serving static pages, CGI, PHP, etc...; are you serving small pages or large ones; etc...) Just remember that most of the cost from running the site comes from buying the bandwidth, not the hardware. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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