On 2005.02.06, Jim Wilcoxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe AS CGI is already good enough to compete with Apache mod_perl, > mod_php, ... I dunno.
I think it already is, but this is a gut feeling. Would someone from the community volunteer some time and effort into creating a small benchmark to validate or refute this sentiment? > Another thing I think would be good are some documented performance > tests with well-known applications. "There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics." While people seem to give an irrational amount of credibility to published statistics, I guess it'd be foolish to do the opposite: not publish favorable statistics, or any statistics at all. The chicken-and-egg problem here is that anyone who's already committed to AOLserver don't need these statistics, and the people who are evaluating AOLserver probably won't bother benchmarking it. Perhaps it might be in the best interest of an organization that supports a software stack (i.e., the OpenACS folks) that runs on AOLserver to provide these baseline benchmarks to help rationalize why their app. runs on AOLserver and not Apache/IIS. The idea here is that you suggest people extrapolate that "if AOLserver outperforms Apache/IIS for basic web serving, then as you scale up to serving dynamic applications, AOLserver will still come out ahead." > If it could be shown that AS runs some of these mainstream web > applications better than Apache, the authors of the software would be > likely to recommend AS as a solution on their site, thus increasing > its popularity with little effort. This is also true. The underlying theme here is that we need proper competitive analysis of AOLserver and Apache/IIS. I think this could/should definitely be one of the responsibilities or tasks that the Evangelism Team should undertake. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- 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.
