“[Patrick Killelea, ] The author of ‘Web Performance Tuning’
offers strategies for removing bottlenecks”
“Given Killelea’s background at Sun, it’s no surprise that he
has little advice for the Webmasters of Windows NT servers, other
than to switch operating systems. But he insisted that this is not
just blind prejudice. ‘Just in terms of practical reliability, no
one runs a high-reliability Web site on NT. It’s just not done,’ he
said.
Instead, he favors Linux for small to moderate-sized Web sites
or Solaris at the high end, and he reserves his most detailed Web
server tuning advice for Netscape Enterprise Server and the
open-source Apache server.
He also tends to favor techniques that employ relatively simple
tools, such as using telnet to open a port 80 connection to the Web
server and manually simulate a browser connection. Or writing a
Perl script that repeatedly pings a router and records the results
to a file.”