You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by rb...@apache.org on 2010/05/02 16:00:06 UTC

svn commit: r940227 - /httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html

Author: rbowen
Date: Sun May  2 14:00:06 2010
New Revision: 940227

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=940227&view=rev
Log:
remove broken link and outdated discussion of server performance.
Clearly someone needs to go through this whole doc and rip out large
parts of it.

Modified:
    httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html

Modified: httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html?rev=940227&r1=940226&r2=940227&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html (original)
+++ httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html Sun May  2 14:00:06 2010
@@ -253,20 +253,13 @@
         <a id="compare" name="compare"><strong>OK, so how does
         Apache compare to other servers?</strong></a> 
 
-        <p>For an independent assessment, see <a
-        href="http://webcompare.internet.com/">Web
-        Compare</a>.</p>
-
-        <p>Apache has been shown to be substantially faster, more
-        stable, and more feature-full than many other web servers.
-        Although certain commercial servers have claimed to surpass
-        Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of
-        these "benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server
-        speed at any rate), we feel that it is better to have a
-        mostly-fast free server than an extremely-fast server that
-        costs thousands of dollars. Apache is run on sites that get
-        millions of hits per day, and they have experienced no
-        performance difficulties.</p>
+        <p>Benchmarks tend to be a measure of configuration competance,
+        rather than of server quality. That is, if you're an expert in
+        IIS, you can probably get it to run faster than you can get
+        Apache to run. You can therefore find comparisions of various
+        HTTP servers that prove that each is faster than all the others.
+        We tend to take server performance benchmarks with a grain of
+        salt.</p>
         <hr />
       </li>