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| My head started to wirl and I thought myself using a beast like apache to do load balancing was a bit like killing a fly with a nuke, so for I looked elsewhere for a solution and apt-cache search came to the rescue: | My head started to wirl and I thought myself using a beast like apache to do load balancing was a bit like killing a fly with a nuke, so for I looked elsewhere for a solution and apt-cache search came to the rescue: |
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| For the serving of static/dynamic content I decided that also for serving apache wasn't good enough, I looked over webrick and was not stable enough, I looked over python-wisted and it wasn't fast enough and so I found [[http://yaws.hyber.org/|YAWS (Yet Another Web Server)]] written in erlang designed for performance and scalability over multiple servers. | For the serving of static/dynamic content I decided that also for serving apache wasn't good enough, I looked over webrick and was not stable enough, I looked over python-wisted and it wasn't fast enough and so I found [[http://yaws.hyber.org/|YAWS (Yet Another Web Server)]] written in erlang designed for performance and scalability over multiple servers. |
Breaking the LAMP loop, alternative web serving methods
Lately I decided to look elsewhere than the usual "linux apache mysql php". Reading on docs makes me draw something like apache or ngingx as a load balancer front-end, the same as the backend adding lighttpd for fast streaming ofdata. This leave me more confused than before:
- apache or ngingx? old but solid or new with an ongoing development? wich for load and wich for serving?
- My head started to wirl and I thought myself using a beast like apache to do load balancing was a bit like killing a fly with a nuke, so for I looked elsewhere for a solution and apt-cache search came to the rescue:
The config file is one placed in /etc/pound/pound.conf, is very simple and straight forward.
Pound Reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web servers
For the serving of static/dynamic content I decided that also for serving apache wasn't good enough, I looked over webrick and was not stable enough, I looked over python-wisted and it wasn't fast enough and so I found YAWS (Yet Another Web Server) written in erlang designed for performance and scalability over multiple servers.
- My head started to wirl and I thought myself using a beast like apache to do load balancing was a bit like killing a fly with a nuke, so for I looked elsewhere for a solution and apt-cache search came to the rescue:
Yet Another Web Server(in erlang)
- database: mysql?postgres?sqlite?ORACLE!??