Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:22:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Drew Mouton <drew@etool.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BigTime FreeBSD; was Re: Linux vs. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808201519230.17817-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <B0000170534@redwood.etool.com>
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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
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