At 10:18 AM 5/3/00 -0400, Mitch Vincent wrote:
>No, I was afraid to run 7.0 beta on the production server. I do have it on
>my development server however and haven't had any problems with it (of
>course the devel server is only used by me, the production server is used by
>about 600 people)...
It's being run at http://community.aolserver.com and http://openacs.org,
and it seems to be solid.
...
>> Interbase is a possible solution. They have a pretty good reputation,
>> and their "super server" (threaded with connections sharing a buffer
>> cache) should scale well. My rough estimate is that they're at about
>> the place PG will be when 7.1 comes out. I don't know if they support
>> FreeBSD, though. Any reason you can't just put up a box with Linux?
>Ooooo. Mitch hates Linux. It's a long, boring story but lets just say that
>Linux and I use to be friends, now we're mortal enemies. :-)
I love it when personal religon gets in the way of technical decision
making! FreeBSD's great, so is Linux. I personally use Linux, but if
a key component of a business of mine would be better served by software
only available on FreeBSD, I'd have a server up in a matter of hours.
Oh, well...to each their own.
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