Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA13651; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate-isdn.ukweb.com (gate-isdn.ukweb.com [194.152.65.149]) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA13490 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aardvark.ukweb.com [192.168.2.4] by gate-isdn.ukweb.com with smtp (Exim 1.61 #1) id 0wymN8-0003gE-00; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:58:34 +0100 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:51 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Sutton To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: a plea regarding NT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote: > I would really appreciate it if all of our releases of 1.3 contained some > note like this in a prominant place: > > Apache on NT has not yet been optimized for performance. Apache > still performs best, and is most reliable on Unix platforms. Over > time we will improve NT performance. Folks doing comparative reviews > of webserver performance are asked to compare against Apache > on a Unix platform such as Solaris, FreeBSD, or Linux. +1 as is. In fact an even stronger warning would be in order ("You wanted Apache on NT, well you got it. Now shoot yourself with it."). //pcs