Slow windows httpd server (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Comparing speeds of servers gets tricky real fast. For example, there is 
a program out (now in free beta form) for the Macintosh that is a 
graphics-only accelerated Web server. It is called Rush Hour and is 
available at:

http://www.maxum.com/RushHour/

Please note this is Macintosh only. The concept is that you serve your 
Web pages from a general-purpose server like Webstar, and you serve 
your images from Rush Hour at faster rates than would be possible if 
Webstar handled it all.

Another strategy that virtually anyone can use is to distribute your 
stuff across two or more Web servers. Put all your documents on one 
server and all your images on another. That way the world thinks you have 
only one Web server but it responds much faster than if that was the case.
Roy Tennant

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:10:41 -0800
From: Alicia D. Abramson <AABRAMS at american.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Slow windows httpd server

I made two mistakes in my last posting regarding this problem.  To 
clarify:

1)  In fact our pages are not graphics intensive.
2)  If you want to test it and tell me how fast or slow the home 
page loads the address is:

http://www.library.american.edu
and to compare us to the campus page try
http://www.american.edu

Thanks

>We have a 486, 66mhz machine with 16MB RAM, DOS 6.2, running on
>Novell 3.1 and running WinHTTPD 1.4a.  We've had reports from people
>that our home page loads slowly--much slower than the campus home
>page which is apparently on a Power Mac.
>
>Has anyone else experienced this problem, and if so, are there any
>soloutions--or is this primarily the limitations of both Windows and a
non-pentium processor.
 
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