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To: piero@strider.ibenet.it
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Subject: Re: Anyone else think it's about time to beat a WEB server to death? 
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:14:57 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> YES. Around November the 20th we at IBE.NET can put up not one
> but two servers running FreeBSD for this purpose.
> We can put one in Europe and one in the USA, both connected by a T1.

OK.  Well, Jaye has already volunteered one of his own machines, also
on a T1.  However, he's running the netscape commerce server on his so
it strikes me that we could do this as a larger test, sort of like a
chili contest.. :-)

We have `n' machines, each chosen to represent some demographic
in the W3 world.  Right now I see this as:

	o #1 - Jaye:  Represents what you can do with a real commercial
	  transaction server (netscape).  Maybe even put up some
	  secure pages to give it a good test.  This will make the
	  commercial folks feel good since they're seeing the actual
	  software under test that they themselves would be using and
	  won't be quick to dismiss the Apache test results as inapplicable
	  to them.

	o #2 - Piero-US:  Represent what you can put together with entirely
	  free components (Apache?).

	o #3 - Piero-EU:  Same as #2 but so the Europeans can participate
	  in the test too.

We run the test for a 24/48/72 hour period, whichever you folks think
is best or can stand, after which each machine's stats are collated
and put together into a large report which is distributed widely.

This could really be an event, if we handle it right.

					Jordan