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From: dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Date: 25 Sep 1996 02:56:48 GMT
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Paul Civati (paul@xciv.org) wrote:
: There are alternatives though, you could run something like thttpd, which
: whilst might not the most feature packed (actually, I personally feel
: Apache is getting a little bloated these days) runs as a single process that
: doesn't fork.
I was thinking just today that if performance becomes an issue on
my own web server, I could try installing thttpd for certain sections of
the server that don't require Apache's features, and have references go
towards that server's port.
For example, got a bunch of relatively static pages, with no
server-side includes or CGIs, that sit around in the /gfx/ hierarchy ...
the big thing is these are series of images, with each index.html calling
upon a number thumbnail inlines as well ... the sort of thing thttpd would
excel at, many multiple requests at once. Just assign the appropriate tool
to the appropriate job ...
I suppose an ISP could maybe even sell 2 classes of webaccount, one
with Apache's features, and a cheaper one running thttpd for a slight
discount. That seems perhaps a bit overzealous to me though.
(Sorry if this seems extraneous,just figured I'd toss in my
brainstormin' 2c ...)
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