6.0-BETA2 as reliable webserver?

From: Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek (Frans-Jan_at_van-Steenbeek.net)
Date: 08/19/05

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    Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:42:18 +0200 (CEST)
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    Hi all,

    I'm a sysadmin and a web-programmer at a company in the Netherlands. In
    the following month we will launch a webshop which will have a estimated
    1000 full hits in the first weeks (estimated through calculation of the
    marketing-departement). I am writing the webshop, and have installed the
    webserver. Because of issues with our housing, we can't put our HP
    webserver to use, since it produces to much noise in our very small
    building. Since we are moving in a few months, we decided to use a HP
    laptop instead (reasonably fast CPU, 512 Megs) since we had a few to
    spare.

    The toy is currently set up with FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2, Apache 2.0, MySQL 5.0
    and PHP-5.0 with all the reasonable modules. Everything is compiled from
    ports. No changes to the kernel yet, no world-rebuilding done.

    I trust the laptop enough to get the job done, but I wonder if 6.0-BETA2
    will be up for the task. I heard rumours that it should be more stable and
    faster then 5.4-RELEASE (which I use mostly nowadays), but it IS beta
    after all. On the other hand, I get the impression that 6.0 is the release
    of choice for deploying anything on a laptop (considering that darned
    Pentium-M). Another thing, I do not fully trust the combination of Apache
    2.0, MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0, since they are all quite new in the
    frontlines.

    This would be a decent testcase for 6.0, but the thing is... I can't
    afford any crashes (this webshop is considered to settle the future for
    our company) and we are talking about a laptop here.

    I will post all problems not yet reported to the list, but if anyone of
    you would like to share his or her opinion on this matter, please let me
    know. Will 4.11-RELEASE perhaps be a better choice?

    I'm not subscribed to the list (allthough I follow the archives now and
    then) so please CC me. Thanks. 

    -- 
Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek
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