On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Igal Koshevoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Schurter wrote: >> http://michael.susens-schurter.com/blog/2009/03/29/crowdsourcing-my-os-bridge-talk-proposal/ >> > Your talk's description is quite thorough and I like the suggested > evaluation metrics. I also like Kirby's suggestion of providing taxonomy > to differentiate the various servers. You might find some more > dimensions to cover listed in the various tables at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_servers
Thanks for the link. Seems it covers my portability metric well and does a pretty good job on the "features" one as well. > That all said, I find that I can pick the appropriate web server by > seeing how well my needs fit some very simple criteria: > > * Apache: Do I need a very easy way to run apps written in PHP, Ruby > (mod_passenger), Python (mod_wsgi), Perl (mod_perl), FastCGI, etc? > * Nginx: Do I need a very fast, super efficient, totally reliable server > for static content or a simple proxy? > * Lighttpd: Why would I choose a server that's inferior in all ways to > Apache and Nginx? > * HAproxy: Do I need a sophisticated but finicky high-availability proxy > server? > * CherryPy: Do I need to run CherryPy apps, e.g., TurboGears 1.x? > * Thin: Do I need to run Ruby apps on a server where I can't install > Passenger? > * Mongrel: Why would I choose a server that's inferior in all ways to > Thin and Passenger? Excellent! This is exactly the sort of info about Ruby platforms I was looking for! Thanks. :) Good questions to address in general. >> I think I'm also going to submit a proposal on Django because Python >> seems under-represented on the proposals list: >> >> http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2009/proposals/ > I think that intro and advanced Django talks would be well-received and > well-attended. I'd like to be an active contributor or at least a more active community member before I give an advanced talk. Despite being the more mundane proposal, I've gotten the most positive feedback on a intro to Django (especially *not* a blog-in-20-minutes howto, but rather a more when to use Django intro). Thanks igal! _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
