Re: Debian as a server.
Here at CFNI we have chosen Linux as our web server. Granted, the
server has not yet seen high volume traffic but we've run a lot of tests
and are confident it will handle what we throw at it. To date, we've
never crashed (knock on wood). I attribute much of that stability to
the excellent quality of the Debian distribution.
I know of a web site that has been in production with *extremely* high
volume for the past few months. They're running Slackware, and have had
few problems. I dare say the problems they have had are due to a loose
nut behind the wheel. The site is an *ahem* adult site, so has had its
share of attacks.
On the other hand, I am the hostmaster for midco.net (my day job). We
run BSDI, and it's fairly stable, although I'm chasing down some
suspected problems with the SCSI adaptor. Not having the source code
and a cast of thousands on a mailing list such as this one is something
I miss with BSDI :/ It also doesn't always act as I expect, coming from
Linux, but that's OK ... it's better than SCO.
The biggest difference is the price tag. An unlimited BSDI 3.0 license
is $2995. An unlimited Linux licenses costs about $0. They're both
UNIX ... so things break now and then and maintenance is required. I
have no regrets with choosing Linux for our small business.
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On 12 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
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: I have been using Debian for a while now as a work station for a
:little bit now and have been pleased with it. I was originally
:quite surprised at the performance and reliability that I
:experienced. VERY soon I will have to install a server here at work
:for FTP and WWW services. I have been on the fence as to which way
:to go. Several people have been trying to convince me to go with
:FreeBSD or OpenBSD for these servers. One of these folks is my ISP
:who is running on Sun Spark systems with SunOS. One message that I
:got said that this person was running a FTP server with average loads
:of 100 Megs a day 150 Megs peek and had no problems. The machine
:never locked up or had to be reset which was not the case previously
:with Linux (Slackware I believe).
:
: The documentation that I have found on Linux has been Far
:superior to that of FreeBSD, at least for my applications. This has
:so far lead me to gravitate twards Debian. The support that I have
:received via this list has also been quite good to the most part. It
:would not be too far a jump tward BSD at this point though.
:
:
: I would like to hear from folks that are running medium to high
:volume servers related to their experiences. My boss was talking to
:folks at Netcom and was convinced by them, to some extent, that BSD
:was far superior to any Linux. That BSD was based on being a
:network oriented system and that Linux was designed as a general
:purpose system that was not really suited to being an effective and
:stable server. Stability is certainly a large concern of mine since
:I really don't want to have to baby sit the thing much once it is set
:up. As long as other folks don't get in and screw with it, I don't
:see that that is much to ask. Part of the key to this may be in
:selecting proper hardware to enable us to utilize the most stable
:drivers etc. This is one of the things that I often see people
:neglect in the concept of a high reliability system. It is
:unbelevable the sacrifice in reliability I see in the name of
:minimal performance increases that is after unnecessary.
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