idealguru-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
2007-Apr-24 17:51 UTC
What web server to choose ?
I''ve seen people moving from Lighttpd to Apache 2 based on blog posts, etc .. Then again some people have posted about lighty coming back into favor. I am confused, whats the current favourite ? Is there one besides these ? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Apache is great for handling incoming traffic, sorting it out and proxying to more task-specific servers like Mongrel. One of the reasons Lighty got so popular was that it had a more stable fcgi than Apache. If you move away from fcgi, then Apache can either proxy to Pound/Pen or do the balancing itself letting Mongrel serve the actual Rails pages. On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:51 AM, idealguru-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:> > I''ve seen people moving from Lighttpd to Apache 2 based on blog posts, > etc .. > > Then again some people have posted about lighty coming back into > favor. I am confused, whats the current favourite ? > > Is there one besides these ? > > Thanks! > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
It also might depend on if you have specific requirements out of the servers and what you want to do with them. I''m not sure there is a "best". If you''re looking for good performance and small memory footprint, I can recommend Nginx. If you''re looking for good performance, small memory footprint, easy install/maintenance and is apache config compatible I can recommend LiteSpeed. I hear really good things about the Lighty 1.5 release, I really hope they get some updates to mod_proxy. On Apr 24, 7:51 pm, "idealg...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" <ubg...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I''ve seen people moving from Lighttpd to Apache 2 based on blog posts, > etc .. > > Then again some people have posted about lighty coming back into > favor. I am confused, whats the current favourite ? > > Is there one besides these ? > > Thanks!--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I''m in favor of Apache 2.x, personally. But I think that that is more because I already know how to work with apache. I stick with it because what brings the money in is building web pages, not messing with web servers. Apache gets the job done well, since I just use it to front for mongrel. I have been wanting to take a look at NginX though... -- Nathan Garza AshLeaf Media | Owner _________________________________________________________ www.ashleafmedia.com | nathan-8gggxoBvU1PsBN0MCq728g@public.gmane.org | 832.514.5726 On 4/24/07, idealguru-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <ubguru-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > > I''ve seen people moving from Lighttpd to Apache 2 based on blog posts, > etc .. > > Then again some people have posted about lighty coming back into > favor. I am confused, whats the current favourite ? > > Is there one besides these ? > > Thanks! > > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---