What's nice about this model is that you can plug in external content hosting services quite easily.
Jade On 8/8/07, Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know it doesn't require any patches, but you can offload your image > server > pretty easily, very efficiently as follows: > > <img src="<%= $Template(gserv) %>/graphics/soa-logo4.gif" > height="33" width="246"> > > Where Template(gserv) is set for each page request, obviously this could > be as > simple or complex as needed. In this case I offload the graphics to > another > port and serve with publicfile. Don't know if this is faster or not, but > it > doesn't require running through a lot of application code just to serve up > a > public image. Maybe the pure tcl image server would work just as good? > > But you can't offload with an https service since the files should come > from > the same ip:port, or at least this used to be required. > > Example is for > http://saleonall.com/cat/allcat.html > and > https://saleonall.com/cat/allcat.html > > One thing the AOLserver community can offer is examples like this of how > to do > something pretty commonly needed as a website grows in size. > > Last week I had example of using threadpools to serve image files (either > old > or new version would work in this case). If there was a way to configure > the > interps in these threads, you could create a series of micro-servers > targeted > to the content being delivered. > > tom jackson > > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 12:12, John Buckman wrote: > > >> as far as what lighthttpd and mathopd are doing to get better speeds, > > >> is that they both are not multithreaded, they are just a single async > > >> loop, serving static files. I remember that this was an option in > > >> Aolserver v2, but I believe it went away in v3. > > > > > > Gustaf Neumann of WU-Wien patched AOLserver to do asynchronous > > > background delivery, and has been using the feature heavily since > > > 2005: > > > > > > http://openacs.org/xowiki/weblog-portlet?ptag=asynchronous > > > http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=482221 > > > > Very nice. The only thing I'd change would be to have this not > > require Tcl, but rather to have registered file types that are > > automatically sent via the async method (ie mp3/zip) > > > > So, what's involved with having the patch applied to cvs? > > > > -john > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- Jade Rubick Senior Developer United eWay Volunteer Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel (503)285-4963 fax (707)671-1333 www.UNITEDeWAY.org -- 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.
