From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5497138CF8 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD85BE08DC; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7059E08A5 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5F57875D7E for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:35 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webserver reccomendations Message-ID: <20150628194635.7f7cf807@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201506281827.59296.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <558F1981.6010106@iinet.net.au> <201506281328.49257.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20150628160541.09a392d0@digimed.co.uk> <201506281827.59296.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-173-geb9bea (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/_r_=4_vlBuniuU8PVlsuwFB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 2685ad2d-b65e-45a7-9d62-8fca973a4634 X-Archives-Hash: 2111e70af714e9053764d190b078eb4b --Sig_/_r_=4_vlBuniuU8PVlsuwFB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:27:57 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Why did you stop using lighttpd? =20 >=20 > I avoided offering much explanation in my previous response because, > well ... I would feel uncomfortable doing so without a pint in my > hand. :-)) So this is turning into a pub argument about which web server is best? :) > All these are good servers for particular use cases. My use case for > the lighttpd was an embedded system with a 266Mhz SoC and 32MB of RAM. > I tried thttpd, lighttpd, apache and nginx on it. =20 >=20 > - lighttpd was heavier on memory usage, although not as bad as apache. >=20 > - nginx was light, fast and full of features. >=20 > - thttpd was very basic but got the job done with relatively low burden > on resources. Slower than ligthttpd. >=20 > - apache just about worked, but brought the little thing to its knees. >=20 > Don't ask me for benchmarks please, because this was done some years > ago. I went with nginx because it was faster and kept the CPU% and > MEM% lowest among competitors. The task in hand was to serve some > simple web pages with MRTG graphs on them. Thanks for the explanation, it appears I owe you a pint if you're ever in my neck of the woods... --=20 Neil Bothwick Feminism: the radical notion that women are people. --Sig_/_r_=4_vlBuniuU8PVlsuwFB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlWQQQsACgkQum4al0N1GQPh6ACbBSQCVMjYxljYvDiEMo3sSedz lQcAn0aYMeF+w//yKGPamqeVK6cV0vEA =Zscd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_r_=4_vlBuniuU8PVlsuwFB--