On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 13:35 -0700, Joe Ruby wrote: > Yo Zed, > > Just curious -- what do you think of the LiteSpeed > server? Is it better than Lighty? Does it (gasp!) also > serve Rails apps like Mongrel? I think I read that > LiteSpeed doesn't have proxying support.
I think litespeed is good stuff. I really want people who can't DIY with Mongrel and need pointy-clicky setup to go to litespeed. Or people who need more commercial support. I could even see people using Mongrel for fast development, and then pumping it onto a litespeed for their latest intranet app. My problem with the litspeed team is that they keep focusing their marketing on how fast litespeed is, but they should be focusing on how easy litespeed is to use by comparison. I'd be trying to sell it to Win32 as a way to get IIS management simplicity from a web server on a Unix platform. Better yet, call the damn thing Litespeed Enterprise Rails Application server and sell it for 10k/CPU. You're probably laughing, but remember when I was joking about the Mongrel 0.4 Enterprise Edition 1.2 release? It was obviously a joke, but I *still* got about 5 serious queries about it just because it had Enterprise in the name. Fact of the matter is most managers are morons barely aware of technology, deathly afraid for their jobs, yet they're the ones buying all the stuff. They don't give a damn about req/sec, they care about "Enterprise", "Commercial Support", and the fact that they can hire a Junior Admin rather than Ezra to get their application running. So if I can receive serious replies to a damn joke about an Enterprise edition of Mongrel, imagine what a company actually seriously offering an Enterprise Application Server could do? Hopefully they can get their heads out of their ass and beat Sun to the punch: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/09/07/JRuby-guys I'm betting everyone $0.01 that Sun has a Rails Enterprise Server by the end of the year, or that one of their JCP Oligarchy partners claims support for it. You watch. Funny thing is they'll be running Mongrel (unless Sun changes that up too). Anyway, gonna be interesting. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
