Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3165/ 2008-12-04T20:25:55-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3165/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2002-10-27T00:38:00-05:00 Alexander Brown http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3165/#15499 <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.zeus.com/purchase/" target="_blank">http://www.zeus.com/purchase/</a> lists the coist of the apache server as being very expensive. £11/1200 or so. <br /> <br /> Dont know much about this site, but if its anything like any other HW site, then spending ther above ammount on a server is out of the question, when a product like apache will do a very comparable job for free. <br /> <br /> Spending on the server HW is required as this at least kills any stability concerns. Also it would go agains the spirit of a site like this, unless they HAD to opt for some proprierty solution, like the above. <br /> text/html 2002-10-19T21:13:23-05:00 Paul Monaghan http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3165/#0 <br /> As someone who as architected web serving clusters for some of Canada's largest ISPs and companies I can tell you first hand that the Apache web server is the last web server that you would want to use in a high performance environment. Check out Zeus, <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.zeus.com," target="_blank">http://www.zeus.com,</a> not only can it handle 4 to 5 times the amount of connections per second as Apache it also has virtually linear scalability on multi processor machines. Zeus also sports a central administration system that allows you to administer an entire cluster from one web interface.<br /> <br /> Paul