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RE: FW: Pros and Cons of various OSs for WWW Servers...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Momentary Language, Sexual Situati)
Mon May 8 10:52:26 1995
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 10:37:32 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: DANTONIO@process.com
From: DANTONIO@process.com (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
> From: staffan@ep.se (Staffan Berger, ElektroPost)
>>cbrenton@digprod.com wrote:
>>If you have a server that is
>>expecting heavy traffic however (50,000+ hits per day) there's no
>>substitution for a UNIX platform.
>And what about Microsoft? They are running their WWW server under Windows
>NT and I'm sure that they have more than 50 000 hits per day. We have
>around 8000 and still have capacity for ten times more on our Windows NT
>server.
Our server WWW server for Windows NT (Purveyor) routinely took 250,000 hits
in a 24 hour period (measured during finalt testing right before release)
so Unix certainly isn't the only choice.
DDA
P.S. for more info on Purveyor, check out www.process.com
