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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. gee, i wonder.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. if their webservers are as reliable as the ones in the article..
    i guess there's only one way to find out..

    slashdotters! advance! :P

  2. How to make a fool of yourself by noxavior · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step one: Submit story on high performance web servers.
    Step two: ???
    Step three: Die of massive slashdotting, loss of reputation and business


    Still, if someone has a link to a cache...

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  3. And as the last step... by MavEtJu · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Don't forget to post an article on /. so you can actually measure high-volume bulk traffic.

    [~] edwin@topaz>time telnet www.hardwareanalysis.com 80
    Trying 217.115.198.3...
    Connected to powered.by.nxs.nl.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET /content/article/1549/ HTTP/1.0
    Host: www.hardwareanalysis.com

    [...]
    Connection closed by foreign host.

    real 1m21.354s
    user 0m0.000s
    sys 0m0.050s

    Do as we say, don't do as we do.

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  4. High powered webserver? by Moonshadow · · Score: 5, Funny
    In an hour or so, I'm predicting it will be a high-powered heap of smoking rubble. It's almost like this is a challenge to us.

    Maybe it's their idea of a stress test. It's kinda like testing a car's crash durability by parking it in front of an advancing tank.

  5. Re:10'000 RPM by Krapangor · · Score: 5, Funny
    10k drives are LESS reliable, since they move faster

    This implies that you shouldn't store servers in high altitudes, because they move faster up there due to earth rotation.
    Hmmm, I think we know now why these Mars missions tend to fail so often.

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  6. server load by MegaFur · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many other people will likely post a comment like mine, if they haven't already. But hey, karma was made to burn!

    According to my computer clock and the timestamp on the article posting, it's only been about 33 minutes (since the article was posted). Even so, it took me over a minute to finally receive the "Hardware Analysis" main page. The top of that page has:

    Please register or login. There are 2 registered and 995 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 214.98 kbit/s

    Draw your own conclusions.

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    1. Re:server load by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please flush my dns entry, or better yet unplug me. There are 0 registered and millions of the slashdot horde currently refreshing their browser and laughing at my stats. Current bandwidth usage: 100 Mbit/s.