Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-09 Thread Max Battcher
Rudy Lattae wrote: > * Have you used Cherokee with Django? I swapped a VPS a few months back from Apache + mod_python to lighttpd (FCGI) then to nginx then to Cherokee (SCGI)... I got somewhat frustrated with configuration editing and ugly/useless wiki documentation, so ultimately the deciding

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-08 Thread Rudy Lattae
Folks, I think we should bring this back to the actual question and not derail the thread and ram it head first into the FUD vs FUD mountain. hcarvalhoalves original question was (and still remains): "I wanted to know if someone here on the list is using or used Cherokee with Django, if there's a

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-08 Thread Oli Warner
> > To stick with your analogy, it actually *is* like buying a car and being > surprised you don't get 0-60 in 5 seconds and 80 mpg, but only because > you will only drive it in second gear. And then you blame the dealer.. > Sure. Cherokee's an automatic ;p > >From the way you talk about Apache,

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:23 +0100, Oli Warner wrote: > FUD. You just think it is slow and inefficient because you > have never > configured it correctly. > > Analogy time. Gather round, children. > > You buy a car. The dealer said it can do 0 to 60mph in five seconds > an

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-08 Thread Oli Warner
> > FUD. You just think it is slow and inefficient because you have never > configured it correctly. > Analogy time. Gather round, children. You buy a car. The dealer said it can do 0 to 60mph in five seconds and does 80 miles per gallon. You buy it for these reasons but when you receive it and t

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 23:54 +0100, Oli Warner wrote: > People quite happily run Django on memory starved VPS systems > using > Apache/mod_wsgi with optional nginx front end for static > files. > > Apache is woefully slow and inefficient at static serving. A static

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-07 Thread Oli Warner
> > People quite happily run Django on memory starved VPS systems using > Apache/mod_wsgi *with optional nginx front end* for static files. > Apache is woefully slow and inefficient at static serving. A static reverse proxy is not optional for sane people. And I'd rather just admin one server. -

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-07 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Oct 8, 9:38 am, Oli Warner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:34 AM, hcarvalhoalves > wrote: > > > I wanted to know if someone here on the list is using or used Cherokee > > with Django, if there's any performance improvements over Apache + > > mod_wsgi/mod_python (specially for concurrent r

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-07 Thread Oli Warner
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:34 AM, hcarvalhoalves wrote: > I wanted to know if someone here on the list is using or used Cherokee > with Django, if there's any performance improvements over Apache + > mod_wsgi/mod_python (specially for concurrent requests), and if there > are any gotchas with Django

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-07 Thread Leonel Nunez
> Thanks for the advice, but I already know how to optimize django apps > (documentation covers this well), so I'm not seeking advice on this. > Neither I'm willing to use Cherokee so I get a magic performance boost > for my app alone (while it is indeed faster than Apache for serving > static con

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-07 Thread hcarvalhoalves
Thanks for the advice, but I already know how to optimize django apps (documentation covers this well), so I'm not seeking advice on this. Neither I'm willing to use Cherokee so I get a magic performance boost for my app alone (while it is indeed faster than Apache for serving static content). In

Re: Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-06 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Oct 7, 3:34 pm, hcarvalhoalves wrote: > I recently found this web server (http://www.cherokee-project.com/) > that claims to be "the fastest web server". I'm not sure that holds > true for *CGI, but at least for static content they have some > impressive benchmarks. Despite the claimings, it

Django with Cherokee web server

2009-10-06 Thread hcarvalhoalves
I recently found this web server (http://www.cherokee-project.com/) that claims to be "the fastest web server". I'm not sure that holds true for *CGI, but at least for static content they have some impressive benchmarks. Despite the claimings, it's an interesting alternative for what it supports o