Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:52:55 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Open Systems Inc." <opsys@open-systems.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: QUESTION: FBSD + SQUID or FBSD + APACHE? Message-ID: <XFMail.990113205255.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990113081852.1151A-100000@freebsd.omaha.com>
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On 13-Jan-99 Open Systems Inc. wrote: > We are moving to a new building in ~45 days. They have a NT web > server farm of around 15 boxes. All the boxes sit on a switched ethernet > network. The question I have is what would be faster and be the biggest > performance boost: Squid doing caching + accelerating the NT web servers > on FBSD of course, or Apache + Proxy/Caching module? > Basically what im trying to do is pull the web content from the NT > boxes over to a FBSD box and make the FBSD boxes do the actuall serving > because they will obviously perform alot better. Go with Apache and a caching module, as Squid is purely based on caching HTTP data and not really serving this data, whereas Apache is a pure HTTPd. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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