On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:31:37 -0600, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Virtual machines should be avoided when testing for performance - you > are incurring on the penalties of competing for resources _twice_ (on > each OS layer). If you want to give true statistics, do it as close as > possible to the metal! I disagree, but not because I think your points are invalid, and instead because virtualization is well on its way to becoming the standard form of web server deployment. I would personally suggest using an EC2 instance (something I would be willing to cover the cost on) that is pre-configured to run all benchmarks such that these same benchmarks can be easily reproduced in a production environment by anyone with interest. > Quite unrelated to the site, but related to webpages (if that's what > you are familiar with): It would be very good if you could put some > work into the cherokee-admin webpages, adding some Javascripty > niceties to avoid the user losing his changes because he didn't click > on 'save'. Maybe even just a simple alertbox would do - or you could > go the whole AJAX way and send each individual change to the server as > it happens (it would be too much, IMHO), or an automatic submit when > the user navigates away, or... whatever you fancy ;-) I think this is a great idea, but I wonder if this should be a high priority? Apache doesn't ship with anything even close to the Cherokee admin tool, nor does lighty or any other major web server distro that I am aware of. While having the interface is nice, understanding what's going on under the hood is far more important to *most* server admins than is a GUI-based configuration engine. While it's takes a little getting used to at first, your choice of configuration file syntax is so wonderful, it's a shame to go and hide it behind a GUI. I've used the "configure with the admin tool to learn the proper configuration file syntax so I can then edit the file by hand" trick a few too many times and, as such, have found myself wishing more time had been spent on documentation than was on eye candy and "ease" of configuration. -- /M:D M. David Peterson Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: (206) 999-0588 http://3rdandUrban.com | http://amp.fm | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://news.oreilly.com/m-david-peterson/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
