Coffee is still kicking in, will try not to ramble... Anyone have web performance and client dwell time on site metrics they use to tune their apps to? In a conversation yesterday a friend mentioned using Lighttpd and getting a 30% boost in request services per second over Apache. In other areas I've looked at the performance of NetBSD over Linux on low-end hardware and it raised the question of end to end performance.
Not a question of "can you make it more performant?" as that's easy to answer. I'm looking at "Is there a web metric that makes it more viable for a small start up to spend time maintaining non-mainstream software collections than using standard tools like Apache, Linux, and traditional servers"? Another business aspect I need to consider is integration into distributed tools. Similar to Amazon's S3, I'm pretty confident that the future is in a highly distributed infrastructure for both the client and provider. That amplifies standardization and performance; every extra web hop adds transaction overhead and costs resources in bandwidth and colo fees or the equivalent. My target market is small businesses that need IT but technology is not their business. I want to be able to sell them a performant solution that actually solves issues for them and lets them get back to making profit doing whatever they do. As I'm small too, in business terms if not in girth, building the capbilities of large enterprises is not within my resource limits. So I sit here on a chilly Saturday morning and ask questions for friends I've never met for help with my business. I'm in my jammies, like many of you, and looking to solve significant issues for fun and profit. Like many of you I have visionary ideas and a bootstrap budget. Sometimes I wonder if we choose technologies less for purely geeky reasons and occasionally for the people it brings us into contact with. Leam _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
