From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 1 20:44:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA15953 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA15939 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id WAA26820; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:43:23 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199608020343.WAA26820@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: number of servers To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:43:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: gism@isot.isot.com, isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Alan Batie" at Aug 1, 96 07:58:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > advertise that your Web server has a bunch of dirty pix (and your Web server > > DIES), you're still marginally OK. > > If you have a T1 connection to the Net and traffic can kill your web server, > you should be running FreeBSD on it instead of Windows 3.1... (though you > might want to have a lot of swap space handy for all the processes waiting > for net i/o to complete). > > Sorry, couldn't resist... I have a Web server, I'm T1 connected, and I run FreeBSD. :-) On the other hand, the box was spec'd out to handle a low to moderate level of traffic, and I contend that it would be easy to take it out with some foolish stunt as described above. Unfortunately the general horny public does not care whether _you_ advertise it or someone _else_ advertises it - they'll melt your box anyways. Me, I'm still waiting for it to happen, but I find consolation in the fact that when it happens, it won't kill any of my other services. ... JG