On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 03:39 +0530, ashwin kesavan wrote:
> We know that apache http web server is THE most popular web server in
> the market by a huge margin. I know apache http server quite well in
> the sense that i worked on it quite a long enough to understand every
> configuration option to a decent level and to read from its access and
> error logs. Now the question is , i see from this site
> http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison which i
> think is pretty true, is that apache does not perform equally as its
> newer cousins of nginx & lighttpd when it comes to performance when
> overloaded. 

facebook runs on nginx proxied to a pure python webserver (tornado) and
uses a python web framework. 

http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
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regards
KG
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