Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:40:25 +0000 From: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> To: OCD Support <support@kawartha.com> Cc: mholloway@flashmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotbot = NT+IIS4 Message-ID: <3764EA29.ECD58CD7@csl.com> References: <37602d49.c0.0@flashmail.com> <37602F86.A37C72A9@kawartha.com>
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OCD Support wrote: > > I wasn't aware that Hotbot was running NT however I wasn't really looking > neither..:) I wouldn't say that Windows NT can't handle high loads of traffic... > just not as much or as well as a good Apache server on FreeBSD...<smiles> > > My guess is that they are running a large cluster of servers acting as one or via > round robin DNS. The story I heard (not sure where, maybe from webmonkey), was that the IIS/NT combo is just a front-end as the "clever" stuff has all been done in ISAPI/ASP. The actual donkey work is performed by various back-end databases serving the ASP's queries, not all necessarily running NT. > > Paul > > "Mark L. Holloway" wrote: > > > How the heck is Hotbot running their entire search engine on a Windows NT 4/IIS > > platform? I thought NT couldn't handle that kind of traffic load... Are they > > using NT Enterprsie? Or a special HAL from Microsoft maybe? > > > > Mark > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com > > It's Free, Easy, & Fun !!! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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