Peter M. Jansson said: > Just for reference, "syntactic sugar" doesn't do justice to what the > Apache team has accomplished. It's a deeper implementation than that. It probably is, but it has one _big_ problem compared to AOLserver when used with a scripting language like PHP. They are independent processes, which is safe, but it means that you cannot share data between interpreters, like a common database pool or shared variables. Even "sessions" are just files with serialized data. If you want to be really safe, you cannot even re-use an interpreter, sensitive information may be left behind by a previous user.
While this is a reasonable trade off when doing massive multi hosting for many low-traffic sites, for a server like AOLserver which isn't written for that purpose, but rather for a single, hard-hit website, this would be a silly thing to do. If you want to do shared hosting, Apache/PHP is a better solution than AOLserver. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
