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High-Performance Web Server How-To

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-it-and-maybe-they-will-come dept.

ssassen writes "Aspiring to build a high-performance web server? Hardware Analysis has an article posted that details how to build a high-performance web server from the ground up. They tackle the tough design choices and what hardware to pick and end up with a web server designed to serve daily changing content with lots of images, movies, active forums and millions of page views every month."

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  1. Advice from the wise: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you find a need to use an open sourced DBMS, make sure that you don't use mysql. Every time that you click on a link and get bumped back to the front page here on Slashdot, it's a failure of mysql. So much for high-performance.

    Why hasn't Slashdot changed to postgresql?

  2. Re:But any web server is high-performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    so what you are saying is that you need a big box to serve files over port 80. That's crap. I've never seen a site that required more than a 4 way box (Intel). That includes sites that get > 2.5 million hits a day. I would guess that whatever your site is running, it doesnt get as much traffic as Slashdot - which is running on a little 4 way intel. Poor design would obviously necessitate 12 way sun box - but then again, a 12 way sun is about equivalent to a 4 way intel, so I guess the issue is really that you like wasting money.