Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:01:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Zeus Web server Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.94.960903164508.1166B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but there is a new commercial Web server for FreeBSD called Zeus, whose claim to fame is high performance. They use a single-process, multi-threaded design, including support for Keep-Alive, which gives them higher performance than any other Web server for UNIX. I only discovered them by accident, when I noticed that both DEC and HP used Zeus as the Web server in their SPECWeb96 results: http://www.specbench.org/osg/web96/results/ Except for the lowest end Alpha (which used Netscape Server), all the results are using Zeus. Also Sun's Web page has some Webstone results, again using Zeus as the Web server. The best part is that they support FreeBSD, as well as NetBSD, BSDI, Linux, and Solaris/x86, as well as the usual workstation UNIX versions. In fact they specifically mention you can achieve high performance results on a $1000 PC (even going so far as to say it's usable on a 386sx w/ 2MB RAM :-). It supports all the usual features: CGI's, SSL, and so forth. If performance is a concern, it may be worth the $900 purchase price. And because it is free to not-for-profit organizations, FreeBSD Inc. may want to try it out? Anyway, the URL is: http://www.zeus.co.uk/ If there are no complaints I will add it to our Commercial Vendors list on www.freebsd.org (just discovering I still have write permissions after my brief stint as FreeBSD webmaster :-). -- Jake
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