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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. Troll? Informative is more like it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    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?

    (Repost due to editor-moderation)

  2. First rule to create a fast server... by unixmaster · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Use Apache! nuff said...

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  3. So fast and soo goo... by PineGreen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, their performance server is so good and fast that it has been slashdotted withing minutes of posting the artice...

  4. 20 Minutes After Posting and it's Already /. by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If their servers are so good, why is their site down after only 20 of being /.ed?

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  5. Re:Why Apache? by khuber · · Score: 2, Redundant
    Any web server can be good enough as long as you spread the load over enough boxes. Apache is much more flexible than Zeus.

    -Kevin

  6. And it just keeps climbing... by nutbar · · Score: 0, Redundant
    New, at Hardware Analysis!
    Watch our high performance webserver get slashdotted, in real time!
    How long until it melts? Let's see if those aftermarket heatsinks really paid off.

    There are 3 registered and 1643 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 1215.81 kbit/s