Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:51:10 +0800 (HKT)
From: "Whizz Technology Ltd." <info@whizztech.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: WhizzBee 1.0a released

Whizz Technology Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of WhizzBee 1.0a,
a web server that will work like a busy bee to bring satisfaction to your
clients.

Download the ready-to-run free binary at

        http://www.whizzbee.com/

WhizzBee is a next-generation web server that leverages the state-of-art
clustering technology. It is developed on top of the open-source Apache
web server with a number of performance enhancement features. The current
version, WhizzBee 1.0a, works for the Linux OS on i386 platforms. Features
of WhizzBee 1.0a include support for clustering, cooperative caching,
efficient request dispatching, high availability, web or console
management, and dynamic load-balancing. Benchmark results show that
WhizzBee 1.0a outperforms its competitors both in the commercial and the
open-source domains, with improvement reaching as much as 1,522% in an
8-node configuration.

A minimal configuration of WhizzBee 1.0a requires two PCs running
RedHat Linux v6.2. WhizzBee 1.0a supports up to 128 web server nodes.

Change log: This is the initial release.

Whizz Technology Ltd.