On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 10:05 -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > I don't think that's such a ridiciulous claim! Consider the > application server that hosts the apps that I write for my company's > internal use. It hosts four or six Pylons applications and one Rails > app. One of these apps handles around 1000 uses a day, one around > 100, one around 10. The Rails app is an AJAX form that just pushes > collected data to the browser, so is usually busy despite only having > an average of 1 user a day. > > The server these apps are housed on is gratuitously overpowered. > Apache's flexability makes this use-case trivial. > > Maybe this deployment pattern is uncommon?
No, I think it's quite common, however I'm one of those obstinate types who refuses to equate popularity with correctness =) > I'm more or less done - I think you've convinced me that Nginx is > probably worth another look at some point. After all, there's nothing > wrong with having another tool around to solve some problem, even if > Apache is where I'd go first. Well, I don't want to discount the value of experience. If you know Apache well then that can be a perfectly valid reason to stick with it, especially if you aren't hitting any limitations with it. My main concern in this thread has been to dispell the idea that Nginx is only appropriate in specialized deployments or the inverse that Apache is the best general-purpose webserver. I believe neither to be true, but that doesn't mean that I believe Apache is a *bad* choice, only that unless you are already heavily invested in Apache (existing deployments, trained staff, etc) then perhaps you should consider alternatives. Regards, Cliff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
