On Nov 8, 2007, at 1:40 PM, John ORourke wrote:
Pound (http://www.apsis.ch/pound/index_html) is light-weight,
easy to
I can disagree -- nginx does everything that pound does, plus
will handle your vanilla
FLAME WAR!!!1!1!
well its not meant to flame... your options are this:
a)
pound
apache-vanilla
apache-mod_perl
or
b1)
apache-vanilla+proxy
apache-mod_perl
b2)
nginx
apache-mod_perl
b2 has the least preferences
if you're serving static content, go with nginx. if you're not, go
with pound. differnet tool for different jobs.
Seriously though, it looks as though there are 5-10 good front end
server options which support the following to various degrees:
- reverse proxy
- caching
- load balancing
- static file serving
There is no clear choice since our setups range from single low
spec boxes to multi-server solutions with load balancing and big
fat caches.
Does anyone fancy doing an unbiased comparison for perl.apache.org?
I'd suggest another approach:
lets all opt-in (offlist?) to state what our favorite front-end it,
and our experience on it in those 4 areas.
then we'll have the people of each app agree on their config and
description - then a central person will coordinate. maybe even do a
quick bench?
i *could* write something, but I'd spend 1/2 the paper shittalking
lighttpd for my own experience having memory leaks / process growth;
i'm decent with squid, but awful with pound. i'm pretty positive
everyone else here will be similar but to different apps.
