From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RPDEq-0005sB-Rh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:03:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A39A21C02B; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161CB21C07A for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:02:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg19 with SMTP id 19so1030110wyg.40 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:02:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Tiu71+OOHuEK797zis9c6X6L6sX4WMaivcYsMdiMdHY=; b=g23rk7f3/4izpRz4EyB3pUwNPivSgtuZcD3GBcFc6X5prS0Q0/bIXaGFyim1RMH2BO bFmHsE80b3xomZtNResGXg8XqN3yOzh0Z88O6qbJ6arJjgtIypDWcaP29SnNoHSXjcnd Ur4orT0pXgHrrWO/cuceTyx29LviQ8yt2MIiI= Received: by 10.216.24.21 with SMTP id w21mr42535wew.57.1321102925769; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fi11sm17273774wbb.9.2011.11.12.05.02.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:02:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)? Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:01:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201111121155.41045.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2067685.yFbzZyYIuz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111121302.06428.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2be9e5b1-1af3-46f4-a951-af40b578c2d7 X-Archives-Hash: d2716370a18fa365aecaf06cfd05a1cf --nextPart2067685.yFbzZyYIuz Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:40:08 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, "Mick" wrote: > > I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: > >=20 > > * www-servers/boa > >=20 > > Available versions: > > ~ 0.94.14_rc21 "~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64" [do= c] > > =20 > > Homepage: http://www.boa.org/ > > Description: A very small and very fast http daemon. > >=20 > > It can be easily locked down for internet facing roles. > >=20 > > I've also used thttpd (you can throttle its bandwidth if that's importa= nt >=20 > in >=20 > > your network), but it's probably more than required for this purpose: > >=20 > > * www-servers/thttpd > >=20 > > Available versions: > > 2.25b-r7 "amd64 ~hppa ~mips ppc sparc x86 >=20 > ~x86-fbsd" [static] >=20 > > ~ 2.25b-r8 "~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 >=20 > ~x86-fbsd" >=20 > > [static] > >=20 > > Homepage: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ > > Description: Small and fast multiplexing webserver. >=20 > Thanks for all the input! >=20 > During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' > server share the distfiles dir via NFS? >=20 > So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of NFS-sharing = vs > HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the office, thus, a trusted > network by definition. HTTP is not really 'sharing'. It is just 'copying'. Clients download the= =20 distfiles from the home server to minimise load on the gentoo mirrors. =20 =46ollowing the download a client machine will have a local copy of said di= stfile=20 in the client://usr/distfile. With NFS there is only one copy of the file, on the server, shared by other= =20 clients in the LAN. In my case the server is not always on, so NFS would not be appropriate. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2067685.yFbzZyYIuz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6+bk4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbHcgCcCYizmwvAju5f/ZmGtVp8gSn7 FMUAoMPxCWhnSwwQE4/G5qDXATdsK57s =77Bp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2067685.yFbzZyYIuz--