On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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". >
That's a value judgement that you can't possibly make for other people. Nor are you in any position to understand what is *good enough* for other people's use cases. 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. > What? Serving static files? Exactly. > 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 > -- 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
