"Desk Rabbit" <nospam@example.com> wrote in message
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> williammaw@aol.com wrote:
>> How does a CAL affect users accessing web pages on a web server? Does
>> 10 CAL mean that the server will only serve 10 users at a time?
> Yeah that's why you don't see many popular sites hosted on Windows
> machines. I mean jeez, can you imagine having to buy a few million
> licenses to allow the entire Internet to view your latest web site? No
> wonder Gates is so fucking rich.
>
> You are better advised to use Linux for your web hosting ;-)

No Web server on Earth or even a Web server farm is hosting a few million
clients simultaneously. A Web Server or a Web server farm is a stateless
connection with each client and one uses a state server to maintain client
state, along with load balancing in a Web server farm solution.