We will need to use SSL. What causes any performance overhead in using apache with Tomcat, considering they will be on the same server? --- Gary Evesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unless of course you need mod_rewrite. We also > handle millions a day with > exactly this set up. > > Gary Evesson > Decentrix Inc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leon Rosenberg > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:30 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: performance with apache and tomcat > > unless you explicitely need the httpd I wouldn't put > it in front of > tomcat, since besides less performance and security > issues (last one > like a month (?) ago with mod_jk) it doesn't bring > you any benefits. > Without knowing your requests (duration, resources > they consume etc) > its hard to make any estimations at all, but > "normally" (whatever > normally is) and on fair hardware 40 requests a > second are easily > served by one tomcat. So you could set up two > machines with tomcats, > put the traffic on one of them and let your hw > loadbalancer perform > the failover to the spare machine if needed. > > regards > Leon > > P.S. There are indeed some real scenarios, where a > httpd in front > would be useful: down page, ssl, port 80 stress, but > since you have a > loadbalancer, it will be serving it much better as > httpd, so use your > lb features. > > On 4/19/07, Eqbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We are planning on using Tomcat as the Servlet > > container for one of our production systems. I > would > > like to know if there are any performance issues > using > > it together with Apache webserver 2.0 and the ajp > > connector (using mod_rewrite). Is performance > expected > > to be better if we double up Tomcat as a webserver > and > > not use apache at all. > > I heard an opinion that using apache with tomcat > may > > mean worse performance? > > The site is a medium traffic site with about 800 > > concurrent users, about 40 hits per second. We > plan on > > using a hardware load balancer and we were not > > planning on putting the webserver outside the > > firewall, tomcat behind the firewall kind of > > configuration, so our webserver and app server are > on > > the same hardware (Suse Linux). Original idea was > to > > place static files on the webserver (apache 2.0) > and > > servlets/jsps on Tomcat. > > I appreciate any feedback. > > Is this list searchable somewhere on the web? So I > can > > search any pervious discussions on this topic? > > > > Thanks. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: > users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: > users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
