From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 20 15:23:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09679 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09668 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id PAA19346; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:22:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:22:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Drew Mouton cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BigTime FreeBSD; was Re: Linux vs. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't work for Best, but one of their top engineering people wrote an article on how exactly do they do it. It is published in 2nd issue of FreeBSD NewsLetter: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/ Anyone trying to run an ISP should probably read it. :) -- Yan www.best.com/~jkb/ Unix users of the world unite: www.{free,open,net}bsd.org | www.linux.org | www.apache.org | www.perl.com "Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark." On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Drew Mouton wrote: >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