Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Substitute Linux by MacOS???
From: Gary E. Bickford (garyb@fxt.com)
Date: Sun Feb 08 1998 - 18:20:09 EST
Good places to find out include http://mrmac.com/macmgrs.
I quote:
>Reply-To: "Rhapsody Discussion List" <rhapsody@clio.lyris.net>
...
>> Yep.. 86 days of uptime running my Apache server..
>
>I agree that Apache rocks. I have a IIsi running NetBSD (MacBSD) and
>Apache that has been running since May of last year with the exception of
>changing out an UPS. On the other hand, I have a quadra 700 running
>WebSTAR that has been up since last September 6th ;-)
...
Actually, the Mac based web servers aren't too bad. Because MacOS doesn't
have a multiuser attitude, it's pretty much secure from web hacking, unless
set up wrong. Some of my best friends run all-mac ISP's :) Performance is
pretty good. Most web servers are underutiliized anyway - a T1 line is
only 1.5 M bits/second, which is lower than disk access on an SE/30 (an OLD
machine)
If you REALLY want to rock and roll, Get WebObjects from Apple. not cheap,
but worth every $. When Apple rolled out their online purchasing web site,
the first day they had 12 million hits and sold $6 million worth of
equipment, all without a glitch. From my experience, that's remarkable for
a first day.
If you want personal experience with Mac webservers, you can contact me
directly, and I'll give you the email of someone who does this.
I run multiple commercial webservers (Stronghold, Apache-based) based on
Sparc/Solaris, but I connect to them and do my work on a 2-headed Mac. I
can use BBEdit, a programmer's editor which is worth the price of a Mac by
itself, or Exodus (X11), or ssh, or telnet depending on what I'm doing. I
keep NetPresenz (a shareware Mac-based web & ftp server) running so I can
ftp from home via a corporate dialup. Not a greatly used site, but it's
never crashed my Mac.
Oddly enough, I've recently been in a Rhapsody discussion list defending
the use of vi and emacs...:)
GEB
At 4:07 PM -0600 2/8/98, dannyman wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:53:44PM +0100, Oliver Wrede wrote:
>
>> I am currently unsure if a MacOS machine is a reliable application for
>> this task. If anybody here think I should not use MacOS, I would
>> appreciate some advice/experience reports...
>
>*scratches head*
>
>Well, MacOS sucks, doesn't multitask too well, is crash-prone, and the source
>code for whatever you're running is not open to security audit or manual
>tweaking/bug-fixing.
>
>That and remote maintenance is probably a sick joke.
>
>But other than that, I'm sure the Mac would make a great platform for
>Internet server applications. Why bother with that tricky unix stuff?
>Especially linux with it's silly graphical configuration screens and stuff.
>
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