Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:48:07 -0600


Once upon a time, Alfredo Sanjuan <alfre@ibd.es> said:
> But www.dejanews.com is a pool of 14 servers. ftp.cdrom.com is a SINGLE
> server. You can take a look at the hardware of ftp.cdrom.com at
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config (if you can avoid the 3600 allowed connections
> :-)

ftp.cdrom.com does FTP, serving out static files.

www.dejanews.com does WWW, doing database searches through large volumes of
data to find and display articles, and also does NNTP to receive and index
those articles.

There isn't really a comparison between the two.

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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