RE: Using Tomcat Without a Webserver

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Drake
Apache also adds load balancing (via mod_jk). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Woon Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using Tomcat Without a Webserver Hi all. I know it's standard practice

Using Tomcat Without a Webserver

2002-02-11 Thread Mark Woon
Hi all. I know it's standard practice to hook Tomcat up to a webserver, but is this really necessary? According to the docs, the main reason for this is that Tomcat's performance when serving static files is sub-par, although it usually goes on to note that this has improved recently. I can't

Re: Using Tomcat Without a Webserver

2002-02-11 Thread Pascal Forget
Hi Mark, I'll tell you about our experience. I made a public website for a real estate banner (franchiser). The public website gets over 3 million hits per day, and as you may imagine, lots of the bandwidth that gets consumed is images. So for that we have an Apache server which handles