From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 27 7:20:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smyk.apk.net (smyk.apk.net [207.54.158.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DC937B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 07:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@krivis.com) Received: from [192.168.1.60] (stuart.apk.net [207.54.148.235]) by smyk.apk.net (8.11.2/8.11.2/apk.010219+rchk1.22+bspm1.13.1.5a) with ESMTP id f4REKKs18613 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:20:18 -0400 From: Stuart Krivis To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IIS vs Apache Message-ID: <7713035.990958808@[192.168.1.60]> In-Reply-To: <2357490475.990199968@box027.labs.pitt.edu> References: <2357490475.990199968@box027.labs.pitt.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0a6 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I tried a benchmark with Apache and IIS on Solaris. Apache did very well. IIS took an infinite amount of time to respond. I guess this proves that Apache is superior to IIS. --On Friday, May 18, 2001 3:32 PM -0400 "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > > --On Friday, May 18, 2001 5:59 PM +0100 j mckitrick > wrote:r > >> >> I just saw a quote: >> >> But as Giga analyst Stacey Quandt noted, even the fastest, cheapest >> and best browser may not win. >> >> "Sometimes, the best technologies don't win out. Microsoft's IIS >> (Internet Information Server) is faster >> than Apache, but Apache has the greatest market share, for example." >> >> Are there any stats to back this up, that anyone knows of? >> > The statement is very confusing, are they comparing webservers or > OS+webservers?? Is"best technology" here, Windows NT? If we are > comparing Apache on Windows NT, surely IIS does better. On FreeBSD or > Linux IIS doesn't perfom at all...so well...I guess there's no doubt what > technology to compare there :). > > Pedro. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message