On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Christopher Lozinski < [email protected]> wrote:
> I am just choosing a web server, and I thought it would be good to > consult with this mailing list, since twisted web was on my short list. > > I run a python moinmoin wiki, a static site, a zope 2 site, and a zope > 3 site on a VPS. > > The thing I care about most, is ease of use. None of my websites are > very high traffic. And I have way way too much complexity in my life to > manage. > > The next thing I care about is reliability. > > The thing I care least about is performance. Would that I had that > problem. > > So Apache is the obvious first choice. But it is so complicated. They > threw in everything but the kitchen sink. I just do not like it, nor do > I want to spend the time wrestling with it to get it to do the needful. > And you have to restart apache everytime the config files change. > > Nginx is the next obvious choice. "Apache is like Microsoft Word, it > has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six > things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache." > > Lightpd is an option, but perhaps it does not support wsgi. Maybe > lightpd2 does. > > Cherokee showed up on my radar, it has a nice web admin GUI, but hard to > configure with moinmoin. > > There are 20 or 30 other web servers, all of which I am ignoring. But > one that I have looked at closely is twisted web. > > TwistedWeb is very interesting. When I read the Apache documentation, > my eyes glaze over. When I read the twisted documentation, my eyes > light up. > What an intelligent object model of networking. Twisted Web is also > closely related to Zope. At the very least, it is also using Zope > Component Architecture, which I like. > > So here is my comparison of twisted web and nginx. > > With Twisted web, first I wonder about configuration. Nginx is just > some configuration files. Perhaps easier then editing a python program. > > Then I wonder about reliability. Nginx has a larger installed base, > more bug reports presumably more reliable. Plus it includes a process > monitor that > keeps things running. I think twisted web includes monitoring software, > but perhaps not as robust and mature. > > The next nice thing about Nginx is that you can drop configuration files > and the server recognizes them, and does the right thing. No need to > reboot. > The twisted web python program I would have to restart. > > Finally I worry about the performance. You can see a bunch of > interesting results for python servers here. > http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers > > In general twisted web does not seem that fast, nor reliable. High > error rates. Bummer. > > What is my conclusion? Well I think Twisted web is a brilliant object > model for networking software. But dedicated software for web serving, > like nginx performs way better > and is much more reliable. > > So I think I am going to use Nginx in front of my moinmoin, zope 2, zope > 3 and static servers. Is that the right decision? Pity, I really > like twisted web. > > Anyhow I thought I would post this here, and see what people have to > say. Presumably I made some mistakes in this document. Please let me > know what they are. > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-web mailing list > [email protected] > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-web > Hi you can take a look at cyclone (http://www.cyclone.io) it is not bad. I use it daily. Regards gelin yan
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