From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 20 13:11:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15471 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from redwood.etool.com (redwood.etool.com [204.27.77.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA15464 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew@mail.etool.com) Received: from [204.27.77.30] (unverified [204.27.77.30]) by redwood.etool.com (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:16:04 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: BigTime FreeBSD; was Re: Linux vs. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:13:28 -0600 x-sender: drew@mail.etool.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Drew Mouton cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Would someone mind sharing some info as far as how the big companies are dealing with performance/availability/redundancy issues? I'm wondering about RAID/RAIC setups and such. How - for instance - did Yahoo deal with scaling up to 100gazillion request per day, and still maintain the speed and availability that they have? Drew it appears that around 8/20/98 1:32 PM, Jan B. Koum said: > There is not better x86 OS right now to run web server then >FreeBSD and folks at www.yahoo.com, www.hotmail.com, www.best.com, >www.linkexchange.com, www.this.list.can.go.on.forever.com will tell you >so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message