From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 00:14:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3141F16A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:14:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from linda-4.paradise.net.nz (bm-4a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.58.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB5943D48 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:14:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (smtp-1a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.194]) by linda-4.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0ILH00GJ4VCD0I@linda-4.paradise.net.nz> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:14:38 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-13-110.paradise.net.nz [218.101.13.110]) by smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7724A828EE; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:14:37 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:14:36 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <58875.217.166.224.132.1124487738.squirrel@www.van-steenbeek.net> To: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" Message-id: <430675EC.8080907@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) References: <58875.217.166.224.132.1124487738.squirrel@www.van-steenbeek.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-BETA2 as reliable webserver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:14:40 -0000 Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a sysadmin and a web-programmer at a company in the Netherlands. In > the following month we will launch a webshop which will have a estimated > 1000 full hits in the first weeks (estimated through calculation of the > marketing-departement). I am writing the webshop, and have installed the > webserver. Because of issues with our housing, we can't put our HP > webserver to use, since it produces to much noise in our very small > building. Since we are moving in a few months, we decided to use a HP > laptop instead (reasonably fast CPU, 512 Megs) since we had a few to > spare. > > I would recommend: Not to use a laptop for a web (or any sort of) server, as laptops typically are not designed for this sort of use (e.g. some will overheat if you never let 'em sleep, and they generally have terrible IO performance). Find yourself a spare desktop box (e.g. a fast PIII with 512Mb will be at least as fast and more reliable as a server). There should be no noise issue with such a box either (funnily enough, I'm typing this on a PIII 1Ghz with 512Mb - and it's pretty much silent). Run 5.4-RELEASE or 5.4-STABLE (or 4.11-RELEASE even), as, ahem, they are stable.... Finally did you really mean 1000 hits per week? Cheers Mark