From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 13:05:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22499 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:05:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22466 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:05:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@partsnow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA21368; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:03:03 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from wildeweb(192.168.100.10) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma021366; Sat, 17 Jan 98 13:03:00 -0800 Message-ID: <34C11CBE.114E99BC@partsnow.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:03:58 -0800 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@partsnow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson CC: Leif Neland , FreeBSD Questions ML Subject: Re: Setting up a personal web server on the net References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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