On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Scribner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the topic of "why use node to service static files"... > > Because if you don't need to understand, configure, and maintain an > extra piece of software in your stack, things get simpler. > On a very basic level yes, but there are more advantages to using a front-end nginx server than there are this one downside of "it's another piece of software". > If node can get 10-50% faster at serving static files, then that's X > number of more deployments that don't need to complicate their > infrastructure more than it needs to be. > I can almost guarantee you there are no deployments where this is a limiting factor. I just tested the simple file server at https://gist.github.com/701407serving up a ~7kB png file. It gets around 2000 requests per second on my ageing macbook with Core 2 Duo CPUs. That's enough to serve 172 MILLION requests per day. Matt. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
