On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:36 -0700, venkatbo wrote:
> Thanks Cliff.
>
> I just checked out Pound. May be I'm missing something, but other
> than Load Balancing & Reverse Proxy, I don't see it offering anything
> more than what lighty alone can already do as per:
> http://www.turbogears.org/preview/docs/deployment/lighttpd.html#proxy
>
> I'll not be building a hi traffic site, so may not benefit from pound.
> Ligthy can already be compiled for SSL, pcre etc., and be setup to
> talk to TG (even over a UDS, if I'm right). What I need is all the
> extra http functionality lighty provides over and above what CherryPy
> (TG) can provide.
>
> Pl. let me know what I would gain by using pound in my scenario.
The real question is: what would you gain by using Lighty? You are
asking about a proxy solution and Pound is a proxy. Lighty can *act* as
a proxy, but it's really a web server (in fact, the reverse proxy
support is new to the latest point release). Since CherryPy is already
a web server, what is the point in putting another web server in front
of it?
In short, Pound gains you simplicity and singleness of purpose.
Also, FWIW, I switched to Lighty around a year ago and I've found it
pretty disappointing. Jan Knetche appears to have more interest in
catering to the Rails community and going to conferences than fixing
outstanding bugs. Lighty's config syntax is dismal. At first it
appears quite elegant, but soon you realize it's actually a gross hack
and is broken in several key ways. There are obvious misfeatures in its
syntax and some parts are outright broken and have remained so for quite
some time. It's pretty sad when bugs stick around so long that they
acquire names ("The Nested Conditional bug" being one that grates on me
to no end).
I still use Lighty for its original purpose, that is, serving static
content, but find that maintaining complex configurations to be more of
a pain than it's worth and so avoid it whenever possible. Frankly I'm
hoping that one of the other lightweight web servers steps up to take
Lighty's place soon.
Regards,
Cliff
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