HTTP Mod_Perl mini-server

[Nigel Hamilton]

Hi,

I'm contracting for an Ad Serving company and we were mooting the idea of
writing our own lean and mean web server for serving the Ads.

We would like to hold all the Ads in memory (each Ad is less than 20K).

The next thing is to create a pool of mod_perl-esque processes that will
handle the AD requests and also hold persistent connections to the
database.

I would like to write this mini-server in perl ... but maybe a threaded
programming language is better?

Does anyone know a good process/threading model for handling the requests
and passing them around? Will we see a significant performance improvement
in any event?

NIge