27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
7:45 p.m.
Your average static image file tends to be over 100KB
now, which is going
to be difficult for an i486 based machine to keep up with. A 150MHz P5
with a basic 10/100 PCI NIC would probably handle it, but I wouldn't give
the task to anything slower, and as cheap as a 200MHz P54CS is, there
wouldn't be any point in using the slower processor. I ran a number of
486-based web servers into the late '90s, and they were just barely able
to keep up with average sized files back then.
Up until earlier this year my main webserver was an Apple Network Server with
a 200MHz 604e. Now, this is certainly got more oomph than the 486, and the
ANS did very well in AIX, but it did the job since 1998.
Now that I have the POWER6, it doesn't really make much sense to keep the
ANS in daily operation, and it was getting flaky to boot. It'll be much
happier as a museum piece running CDE for demonstration purposes.
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