Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:18:14 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com>, Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com>, "'Danny'" <dannyho@bigpond.net.au>, Dem Chuasieng <dem@goodview.com.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SV: it seems www.hotmail.com is not using FreeBSD Message-ID: <3A6787C6.2E64EE32@mail.iowna.com> References: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F888@fernonorden.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101180822430.537-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> <20010118155649.B79797@citusc17.usc.edu>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Hotmail ran, and continues to run, on Solaris servers for handling the > email backend. FreeBSD has been phased out of the web server frontend > and it now runs exclusively on Win2k. This was a directive from > Redmond for political reasons, not due to the failure or inadequacy of > FreeBSD to support the task. True enough ... but keep in mind, when Microso~1 first acquired Hotmail, they orderd all the front-end servers switched over to NT4. This was a complete failure. There were a couple of attempts to get NT4 to handle the load (by using many more servers) but to no avail. NT simply couldn't keep up with the load that FreeBSD was handling. Apparently, W2K is a better system than NT4, since it was able to take over, finally. I guess it's good that at least Windows is getting better. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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