From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 20 15:01:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04782 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:01:59 -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 PAA04775 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:01:57 -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 17:06:34 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BigTime FreeBSD; was Re: Linux vs. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:03:57 -0600 x-sender: drew@mail.etool.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Drew Mouton To: "Jan B. Koum" cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cool. I love low-tech. So Yan - how does best.com do it? Drew it appears that around 8/20/98 3:43 PM, Jan B. Koum said: > AFAIK Yahoo! has many web servers doing some sort of DNS round >robin or some sort of load balancing. They are your plain P/Pro boxes - >don't think they are doing SMP as of yet. They are all SCSI however. > Setup like this allows you to have 100 gazillion hits per day >since each machine only gets fraction of hits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message