On March 5, 2005 08:00 pm, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > I have heard that khttpd is pretty lightweight, but its use seems to > have been deprecated, and it does not appear to be actively maintained. > Is TuX the way to go? > > As for tftpd and ftpd, I'm just not sure. Leightweight is the key, here. > > Thoughts, opinions, experiences?
Just remember that early optimization is the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire. Get it working, then start tweaking. Having said that, I try to center my system around Postfix, Postgres, Perl (moving to Python slowly) and Apache. I used to be a qmail diehard but one day I just got sick of it. Same with PHP; I used to love it but now I hate it with a vengeance; I can't explain why but it is *so* much harder to write maintainable, clear code in PHP compared to even Perl. If you don't need a full-out ACID-compliant DB but want to keep SQL around, use SQLite, it's simply amazing and if you write your SQL portable enough you can always "change up" to Postgres with very little change in your code. If SQL isn't an issue stick with something tiny and ubiquitous like db2 or gdbm, although I must admit I don't know much about either of these. Hell, use flat files unless you *really* need a db. Do you *really* need two different httpds? If you've already got Perl running and you are only serving up a dozen pages A MINUTE, what's wrong with Frontier::Daemon? Do you really need all of Apache or to split the load up between tux and Apache? As far as tftp and bootp and the like, I prefer udhcpcd and whatever slackware's in.tftpd is. Very lightweight and work well enough. FTP I use proftpd on. You'll see that everything I tend to use is clear, concise and security-conscious. I've learned enough the hard way that quick and dirty often costs you more in the end. Use padl.org's LDAP connector instead of the hideous mess of complexity that PAM is. Use a distro that is consistent with every install (that's a direct shot at Gentoo, btw). -A. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
