From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:53: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from greg.ad9.com (greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2EE37B423 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greg.ad9.com (nepolon@greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by greg.ad9.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA22552; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:03:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Lewis X-Sender: nepolon@greg.ad9.com To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "James E. Pace" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? In-Reply-To: <20000828114314.Y1209@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > What do you recommend for a web server if Apache is "entirely useless" may > > I ask? > > Zues, thttpd, roxen, there's a lot out there that are a lot faster. > > Supposedly Zues is king. Do you happen to know what these do better than apache? When considering the potencial load of a web server, I look at the hardware as the bottleneck. I have never seen apache consume that much process time, though my experience is limited. Usually we hit bandwidth limits before we hit the box's peak, IME. They is also the consideration of supported packages... is James' site made of static pages or dynamic ones? How are they generated? Would it require re-engineering of the site to switch to another web daemon. I imagine that these faster servers would use the hardware in a way that keeps request overhead lower (logging and caching tricks) but the trade-offs in server-side scripting support could kill that. Does anyone know of a good FAQ or other resource on load balancing with apache? --Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message