On 8/30/07, Matt Ingenthron <Matt.Ingenthron at sun.com> wrote: > Brandorr wrote: > > I just wanted to mention that there seems to be a new trend I've > > noticed, that people are foregoing Apache altogether and switching to > > lighter weight, and faster webservers like lighttpd and thttpd. > > (Mostly lighttpd actually). I don't know if this is a factor, but I > > thought that you should know what I'm observing... (You might want to > > ask around and see if this is a larger trend. > > > > > > It's definitely a trend, and definitely something we want to address. > We've had face-to-face conversations on it, but haven't raised it on the > list yet. > > lighttpd and nginx are two I've some experience with. I've seen thttpd, > but haven't spent any time with it-- mainly because it's not even > multiprocess. Admittedly, if it's lighttpd style, a nice multithreaded > kernel like OpenSolaris will do fairly well with it, but we could do > better with one of the other light approaches.
I agree nginx and lighttpd are better as generic Apache replacements than thttpd. > Even though we may not be able to get it in to a package soon, we should > document building nginx and lighttpd on Solaris. Seems reasonable... (I have just started working with the Mongrel/Rails/OpenSolaris combo a few months ago... it is still a minor, minor minority, but it is gaining traction fast). (I know, I know fastcgi is better, but you have to ask better for what. Performance yes, flexibility and ease of use, maybe less so). How does you see Rails fitting in? Is it too fast of a moving target to incorporate into the OS? Cheers, Brian (When did this project spin up? I just heard about it for the first time a couple of days ago.) > - Matt > > -- > Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Global Systems Practice > http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ > email: matt.ingenthron at sun.com Phone: 310-242-6439 > > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
