From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 01:54:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540DB16A44A for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:54:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE9D43D1D for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:54:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419395E39; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:54:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14116-03; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-69-22.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.22]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868B05C39; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42C0ADC8.1060204@mac.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:54:16 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant References: <20050628021524.7ba2df56@anubis> In-Reply-To: <20050628021524.7ba2df56@anubis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small HTTPD + PHP4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:54:27 -0000 Grant wrote: [ ... ] > I dont know if this is the right choice for me, but all i really want is > a small simple and fast httpd for running a php forum and thats about > it.. nothing else. If you're looking for a small, simple, fast webserver, consider thttpd. If you are looking for a small, simple, fast webserver, forget about trying to use server-side includes, Perl/mod_perl, PHP, or any other scripted language, especially if they are talking to a database. A large PHP BBS requires a lot of resources because it is not especially efficient way of solving the problem. [ Compare the number of HTTP transactions-- and the sizes involved-- of looking through the Mailman archives of this list versus reading your favorite PHP board. Animated GIFs for smileys, user avatar images and .sigs, or worse, .sigs in Flash, etc, etc... ] -- -Chuck