From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 11:48:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16106 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16100 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA24707; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:48:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:48:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: simonr@roland.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a web server In-Reply-To: <012A8881D8E0D0119D7C006097529861109943@nt1> 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 Tue, 11 Aug 1998 simonr@roland.co.uk wrote: > I was recently recommended to run an apache web server on BSD UNIX so > that we could host our own web site. I want to know if FreeBSD is BSD or > if it is a cut down version of a BSD version that is for sale. FreeBSD is a full implementation of BSD UNIX, as far as I know it's as "complete" as any UNIX. > If it is, would it be suitable to base a web server such as apache on? > We currently get hits on our site approximately every two-three minutes. We use Apache on FreeBSD to run multiple web servers, hosting ~800 virtual sites getting 800K-1M hits a day. It's beautiful, stable as hell, fast as all get-out, and this is only on Pentium 166s with 64MB. > We would be running it on a > dual pentium II 333 MHz with 256-512 Mb ram and a RAID controller > controlling3-4 hard drives. At your hit rate, that's *way* overkill, a 486 with 32MB would do just fine. A web server typically puts next to no load on the CPU. > If there is a version of BSD for sale I would appreciate it if you could > send me a web address at which i could get information a prices. You can get FreeBSD on CDROM from Walnut Creek, http://cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message