From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Sep 12 02:55:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15743 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15738 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id CAA13806; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:55:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Terry Lambert cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Starr, Apache, FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199809120849.BAA02823@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, here is a start. Someone please edit it and maybe we can post it on the main site? FreeBSD + Apache brings Starr's report to masses via Internet. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Walnut Creek, CA - As people all over the world glued to their computers in order to download report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, some found problems connecting to the web sites. But not those who pointed their browsers to mirror site offered by Yahoo! at http://www.yahoo.com While sites such as http://www.senate.gov had difficulties serving and keeping up with all the connection requests, Yahoo! had no problem serving this historic document and at the same time continuing it's normal business operations. Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) is one of the most visited sites on the web and is powered by FreeBSD OS. FreeBSD is the industry leader when it comes to web serving. This OS is ranked number one among ISPs and desktop users who want speed, security and stability. One can get more information about FreeBSD by visiting http://www.freebsd.org Yahoo! also uses Apache to serve web pages. Apache is the most widely used web server on the internet and is considered to be the best there is. More information about apache can be found at http://www.apache.org -- Yan On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: >The site www.senate.gov was overrun with Ken Starr report seekers. > >Yahoo, on the other hand, was able to easily keep up with demand. > >www.senate.gov runs on an NCSA server. > > ( http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats ) > >www.yahoo.com runs on an Apache server on FreeBSD. > > >Time for a joint Apache/Yahoo/FreeBSD press release, I think... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message