From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 10:17:22 2002 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 D2F3237B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BADE43E4A for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:17:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA38171; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:16:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:16:58 -0800 Subject: Re: looking for a lightweight web server From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Rotaru Razvan Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20021030175805.99661.qmail@web11202.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well apache isn't quite lightweight. I was hoping to find something > small, that eats as few recources as possible. I don't need cgi > support, perl and other stuff like that. Only html+php. > It's not like i don't like apache. I just think it's not suited for my > kind of application. > If you still think i should use apache please tell me, because right > now i don't know what to think. I'll tell you what I think, FWIW. Apache may not exactly be lightweight by your definition, but it has always performed extremely well with minimal resources. I ran it for years on a 486 DX4 (100Mhz) with 64MB RAM serving 4 Web Sites with light to medium traffic. No problems. PHP will probably be your biggest resource concern, not apache. Besides, apache will support just about everything you'll ever want to do, so I would recommend starting with it because you'll likely end up using it in the end anyway. As for its performance, apache is lightweight enough for me, and I'm sure it will be for you. Apache configuration may be a little heavy for a first time user, but once you get the hang of it it's pretty easy. Good luck, Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message