FreeBSD for webserver?

[Chris St Denis]

VeeJay wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am going to make 2 Webserver at my work going to handle 50 mil hits per
> month... They are using Linux already. But being a FreeBSD fan, I have
> proposed FreeBSD to my Boss convincing him that FreeBSD is more Fast and
> Secure solution for his needs... And now I want to show the results...
> *Hardware:*
> Dell PowerEdge 2950 III having 2 x CPU 3,0 GHz Intel Xeon L5450 Quad-Core
> 2x6MB cache WITH 16 GB RAM.
>
> *Tools:*
> 1. FreeBSD 7 Production Release
> 2. Apache 2.2.9
> 3. MySQL 5.1.26
> 4. PHP 5.2.6
>
> My question is, "*To get the speed, performance and security*":
>
> Should I use Ports or Packages to install all these tools One by One?
>
> *OR*
> Should I use TAR files and compile them manually. For example giving command
> line arguments and commands like
>
> ./configure --prefix=/www --enable-module=so
> make
> make install
> cd ../php-xxx
> ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/www/bin/apxs
> make
> make install
>
> etc....
>
> I have googled but still haven't reached to solution...personally I would
> prefer comiling them with command line arguments
> but then I seek some help from you guys i.e.
>
> How should I write this ./configure......stuff in FreeBSD and what would be
> the best options combination, I must choose to get the speed, performane and
> security in Apache, MySQL and PHP?
>
> Any suggestion is very welcomed!
>
>   
Best to just use the ports. They take care of all of the dependencies 
for you and have extra patches to make them work optimally for FreeBSD.

Why ./configure by hand when the port's makefile will do it for you?

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Chris St Denis
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