From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Oct 10 3:11:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1367C151BA; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 03:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gryph@mindless.com) Received: from mindless.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA15355; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 03:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <380065B9.6A9B951C@mindless.com> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 03:08:57 -0700 From: "D.M.P." Organization: dmp@aracnet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Brett Taylor , Donald Wilde , Joseph Scott , "Robert A. Bruce" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What makes the Big Sites Run? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > > > from Netcraft: > > > > homepages.msn.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) on Solaris > > Anyone happen to know what their excuse for this one is? They can't claim > it was a pre-existing setup, because they BUILT msn. At the time of MSN's launch, NT and IIS weren't stable enough for what the load and availability requirements. At the time, the P2 didn't exist, so there wasn't a reasonably-priced x86 solution for web-serving. I'll lay good money on them not moving it to NT4/IIS because of the same reasons involved with Hotmail. -- "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Truth and faithfulness are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message