Apache_mod_PHP or Apache_fastCGI, or IIS flavored. Although I've had some good experiences using lighttpd with php too.
What I mean with a php server in general is any webserver configured to run PHP websites and static files and nothing else. You can get rather funky results having a webserver setup to run PHP, ASP, Python, JAVA, .NET and other languages all on the same box plus maybe several different database engines. I prefer choosing a technology and sticking with it for the entire website or server. I also adminned a server farm for a hosting company in the past, they had all servers setup to run everything you can imagine, including some servers running fully configured Apache and MySQL instances, configured for PHP all the way to Java, while the servers in question were only used to lease Multiplayer COD and Ghost Recon instances on it. I changed it to have a 4 server pool of PHP servers, an 8 server pool that ran nothing but static files and a 3 server pool with Windows/IIS for ASP and .NET with all the other servers being utilized for game instances. He was able to drop 8 webservers (there were originaly 23 servers that ran websites and web applications) and replace them with boxes better suited for game hosting, because the way I configured the 15 remaining web servers was plenty performant to run what he was hosting (they were really just running 5-10% average load). Way less headaches and much lower maintenance. It's easy to mess up multiple technologies on one server by updating or adding one. Not to mention that most webservers that have too many technologies installed and enabled for use are typically malconfigured and unoptimized because its way to big a headache to even start trying to fix it, while that type of servers is usually managed and in the hands of someone with sub par knowledge of the technologies and just had some external company or the datacenter where they lease the servers set it up like that. -----Original Message----- From: django-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:django-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Gonsalves Sent: dinsdag 6 oktober 2009 10:42 To: django-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to interpret the performance difference: Tornado vs Django On Tuesday 06 Oct 2009 1:53:44 pm TheMaTrIx wrote: > I have a nack for optimizing PHP Webservers what is a PHP webserver? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
