Looking for information

[Dan Mitchell]

I'm trying to get my college to deploy Frontier/Manila on a widespread basis
for faculty web sites. While there are a number of people here who are very
enthusiastic, there are also skeptics, and we have to respond to their
questions.

Can anyone help me with hard facts about the following based on real
experience with Frontier/Manila?

    Our technical staff has heard that Frontier has memory leaks
    and should be re-booted daily. Is this still the case, and if
    not, what steps are you taking to avoid having to do this. (I'm
    no help to our staff since my OS 9 server _does_ reboot daily,
    but it doesn't handle the heavy traffic we envision.)

    Speaking of server traffic... the other issue for our technical
    support folks is just how much traffic/how many users a single
    Frontier/Manila server can support. I've heard the "we serve
    thousands of site on our machine" response before, and I believe
    it. However, I need more concrete info to convince the techies.

        How many daily clients/hits do the busiest Frontier/Manila
        sites/servers handle? Again, I'd like to know about specific
        sites/servers so that I can tell the tech support people that
        "so and so handles X hits per day on X Manila sites on their
        X server."

    Finally, one suggestion from our Unix server gurus is that they
    might want to serve the actual sites from a Unix box running
    Apache and mirror this server from a "editor" server where our
    editors would make the actual changes to their sites via Manila.
    Reactions to this strategy?

I'll take messages on the list or direct email to dan at mitchell.fhda.edu

Thanks.

Dan

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