When comparing IIS to Apache there is no contest. I have one word for you: Security. There are innumerable exploits and bugs for IIS and at best a handful of easily patched issues for Apache (mostly related to CGI). Plus, Apache is a much more stable product than IIS in my experience. $0.02 Brandon Wheaton UNIX Systems Engineer ValiCert, Inc. 1215 Terra Bella Ave. Mountain View, CA 94043 650.567.5430 ---- Computers are useless; they can only provide answers. ~Pablo Picasso -----Original Message----- From: abc-123.net [mailto:abc-123@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 5:31 PM To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Help settle a question... 250 sites can go on a Raq2, but we also have NT servers. Just have to watch the load on the raq2 servers, as they do die easy, we know this from experience. Whereas, out NT has not died yet. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Grimmett" <pageus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:52 PM Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Help settle a question... > We use both the Raq2 and NT. (for the Cold Fusion programs.) We have > already purchased another 2 serves for NT due to the poor MT abilities of > the IIS.. we get about 130 sites/server on the NT and those are p-3, 500's > at a gig of mem each. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kris Dahl > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 9:43 AM > To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Help settle a question... > > > on 4/20/00 7:58 AM, Cyber Sam at cyber.sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I need some help in settling a question, I have a friend who is an NT > host, he > > feels that the claim that the RaQ3 will never handle up to 200 web sites, > at > > best 50 to 75 web sites. I think that by selling space at 50 and 100 mg's > > each, it may not handle a full 200 web sites, but very close to it. > > This depends on a lot of factors, including CGI usage etc, traffic of each > site, etc.. > > I assure you that a Raq3 with 128-256 megs of ram can *easily* run 200 > moderate sites. Hell the Raq2 could do it. > > It will eat up your bandwidth before anything. > > I would be real curious to see how many sites people have been able to host > on an IIS machine. > > -k > > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-users mailing list > cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To Subscribe or Unsubscribe, please go to: > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-users mailing list > cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To Subscribe or Unsubscribe, please go to: > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users _______________________________________________ cobalt-users mailing list cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To Subscribe or Unsubscribe, please go to: http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users
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