From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:36:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from greg.ad9.com (greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C000537B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greg.ad9.com (nepolon@greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by greg.ad9.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA22457; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:47:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Lewis X-Sender: nepolon@greg.ad9.com To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "James E. Pace" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? In-Reply-To: <20000828113233.X1209@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > For a project I'm working on, I need to have a webserver handle thousands > > (and 10's of thousands) of simultaneous connections. To do this, it > > seems the best way is to have lots and LOTS of apache's httpds running > > at all times. > apache is entirely useless for high amounts of traffic, you should be > investigating another webserver or looking at a clustering/load-balancing > solution. What do you recommend for a web server if Apache is "entirely useless" may I ask? --Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message