Quoting LALOT Dominique <dom.la...@gmail.com>:
2009/5/8 Michael Rubinsky <mrubi...@horde.org>
Quoting lst_ho...@kwsoft.de:
Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mrubi...@horde.org>:
Using lighttpd with Horde doesn't require any extra or special PHP
modules then using PHP with Apache does. The only difference is
you need to
run a fastcgi PHP instead of as a module (mod_php). I don't have any hard
performance numbers personally, other then the fact that when I
was hosting
my personal Horde install in a Virtuozzo VPS with no swap space, Horde was
just about unusable with the amount of memory available to my
VPS. Switching
to lighttpd allowed it to work without any issues running with
256MB for the
entire server, which ran the whole stack (mySQL, Postfix,
Dovecot, etc...).
Not special for lighttpd but special by the sense not included in the
distribution repository. Is it possible by the way to run a PHP-accelerator
(APC) with lighttpd?
Yes, it absolutely is. Personally, I use xcache and (now that I'm on a much
more powerful, dedicated box), I also use xcache as a backend for Horde's
cache as well.
I know there are a number of large scale horde installations that use
lighttpd, if anyone of those admins are listening...
Well,
I played around with lighttpd for a few weeks on our test machine, and
looked at what lighttpd looks like. There was a miss: On our load balanced
machines, we need also proxy_ajp.
So I decided to put memcache for apache, mod_expire, get rid of unused
modules, put xcache (debian supported), memcache for sessions.
The speed difference from the user side was unoticeable. So I choose to keep
on Apache. Our staff is much more efficient on Apache. If I go on hollidays,
I prefer to think that somebody else could manage. And keeping both lighttpd
and apache on the same machines was too complicated also.
The only delay comes from imap side, but it has been improved in the next
version, I've been told.
Hopefully someday, when I get around to it (ha!), I'll be able to
document my experience with lighty and Horde. Having set up server
farms that need to handle thousands of connections per second, the
ultimate conclusion is that you are absolutely crazy to still be
running Apache + PHP. A FastCGI based farm is easily 300%+ faster on
identical hardware, not to mention much easier to scale.
michael
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