Re: Interesting Upgrade

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 12,  5:26pm, Hank wrote:
> Subject: Interesting Upgrade
> I've been away to a 4 day conference and just got back. It is interesting to
> note that a top 25 Internet web site has just canned MS IIS for
> FreeBSD/Apache.
>
> According to the new IT head, they dropped from a 100 box server farm
> running at 100% load to under 6 machines running at low load. Half of those
> 100 boxes where there just as mirror machines so the site would be
> accessible when the main servers went down.

HOLY SNIKES!!!  Is this confirmed?  I find it pretty hard to believe an OS
change made that much diffrence.  We're they serving static pages (I doubt it)
or some database enabled content?  And if so did this OS change happen
concurrently with any backend changes?  I'm very curious about this claim,  and
are they looking to sell some of those 95 boxes good and cheap?