From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:44:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F7F37B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7SIhFl14801; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:43:14 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Steve Lewis Cc: "James E. Pace" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? Message-ID: <20000828114314.Y1209@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000828113233.X1209@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from nepolon@systray.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:47:28AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Steve Lewis [000828 11:36] wrote: > 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? Zues, thttpd, roxen, there's a lot out there that are a lot faster. Supposedly Zues is king. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message