On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:30:20AM -0400, David Freeman wrote:
> I am putting together a new web server to serve our new web site.
> We expect a-lot of traffic on this site, so we have purchased a HP
> LH4 quad xeon 550 2mb cache server. The site will use the mysql
> database to hold about 125,000 squ's with descriptions, and notes
> for each squ. The web surfers will be searching through the
> database frequently.
>
> My question is, what is the best OS for a heavy usage,
> multi-processor mysql database driven web site. We could use almost
> anything, but we would prefer to use a free OS such as freebsd or
> Linux based OS.
Since you mentioned multi-processor, I'd recommend Linux (2.4 with
ReiserFS) or Solaris. FreeBSD won't let you take full advantage of
both CPUs the way other OSes will.
One thing that's not entirely clear, though, is whether your server is
a database server only. Or do you plan on running Apache on it as
well? If it's not a dedicated DB server, the multi-processor issue
will become less important.
Jeremy
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