Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-08-22 Thread Frank Denis
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:29:42AM +0200, Toni Mueller ecrivait : > My experience from running some low-traffic sites with both nginx and > lighttpd is that nginx is by far easier to handle, more robust, and > also more flexible in its configuration, and I hope to get rid of > lighttpd asap (eg. "m

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-08-22 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 20.07.2008 at 21:03:03 +0200, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Henning Brauer wrote: > > lighttpd. > > can it do reverse proxying, as needed for zope? in theory, it can, but I didn't try. My experience from running some low-traffic sites with both nginx and lighttpd is th

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> nice. btw, there is also a light http server called nostromo, > developed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's nhttpd, didn't you rtfm? The monkeys will eat you alive if you didn't (beats masturbating the whole day). -- Nuno MagalhC#es

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-21 Thread Marc Balmer
* Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-07-20, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Henning Brauer wrote: > >> lighttpd. > > > > can it do reverse proxying, as needed for zope? > > it definitely can in 1.5, I'm not sure about the in-tree version > but I think it's likely. nice. btw, there i

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-07-20, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Henning Brauer wrote: >> lighttpd. > > can it do reverse proxying, as needed for zope? it definitely can in 1.5, I'm not sure about the in-tree version but I think it's likely.

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Marc Balmer
* Henning Brauer wrote: > lighttpd. can it do reverse proxying, as needed for zope? > > -- > Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de > Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services > Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting -

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Matthew Weigel
Henning Brauer wrote: lighttpd. So far I am very happy with lighttpd, including running with PHP via FastCGI. I don't really trust the PHP applications I run, so they operate in a separate chroot (via spawn-php.sh) as a separate user in addition to lighttpd itself being chroot as a separate

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Henning Brauer
lighttpd. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Calomel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nuno, > > I would highly suggest looking into Nginx. It is easy to build from > source and runs efficiently, using little memory or CPU time. Even > though it is a light web server compared to Apache, Nginx is able to > handle h

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Darrin Chandler
There is also a package of the stable version of nginx. If you need features from the development version or want different modules than the package then build from source. But why not use the existing port/package if it suits you? As for which light http server, it might be best to try out severa

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Calomel
Nuno, I would highly suggest looking into Nginx. It is easy to build from source and runs efficiently, using little memory or CPU time. Even though it is a light web server compared to Apache, Nginx is able to handle high traffic loads. The WordPress blogging system recently converted all of its l