Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:03:58 -0800 From: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk>, FreeBSD Questions ML <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting up a personal web server on the net Message-ID: <34C11CBE.114E99BC@partsnow.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117122054.11811A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On 17 Jan 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > > > At 17 Jan 98 06:03:23 Ash Yadav wrote regarding Setting up a personal web > > server on the net > > > > AY> Hi Folks, > > AY> I have got free bsd up and running at home for the past 2 weeks. > > AY> The next step for me > > AY> is to setup a webserver on the net ie. run a webserver from my > > AY> home . I would appreciate > > > > Why would you do such a thing? Are you connected 24h/day? Will your isp call > > you, when somebody want to access your site? You can use your webserver to test > > stuff, but then have your pages at a server at your isp. > > Perhaps you can put your server in their room? :-) > > I think it would be interesting to determine from the logs how heavy a > load a web server can accomodate over a single phone line and therefore > how it should be ideally set up. > > Annelise I just did a live test with our ISP through our 128k Frame Relay. When I initiated three ftp transfers, I was able to get their routers to start complaining that my daemons should slow down. This was at about 93% of 128K. Since this is sustained packet flow, obviously this is an acid test. I think a parallel can be drawn with the instantaneous case since graphics-heavy pages are transfered in an equivalent manner, so I would doubt you could sustain any load that would require more than 20 or 30 httpd daemons unless the site is text-only, like UGU is/was. Doubt much tweaking would help. I think a temporary site is an extremely useful thing for a collaborative workgroup system. As each system connects, it sends out e-mail to a known-IP location, and when all have answered, it sends e-mail informing them of each others' IP addresses. With fxtv and a little more glue, you have a live videophone call happening. FreeBSD, since it is open, gives us the license to go far beyond that, but even a clustered http system with dynamic pages could be quite handy. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo
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