[aklug] Lighttpd vs. Apache: was: Living in the cloud...

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Tue Jul 06 2010 - 15:45:07 AKDT

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On 07/06/10 22:47, Damien Hull wrote:
> Ubuntu is the same as any other Linux distribution. Well, for most things.
> It's not Windows 2008 server. Neither are the Linux distributions you
> mentioned.
> A LAMP setup is a few commands on ubuntu. I'm sure it's the same on other
> distributions. And in case you didn't know there is a server version.
>
> 512mb of ram is enough for a small web server. I had to tune apache down a
> bit. I used apache jmeter and crashed apache with default settings. Good
> times.
>
> Anyway, all is well with my little server. Or will be as soon as I finish
> moving everything over.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 6, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Tim Gibney <timgibney76@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 256 megs of ram is very very small for a server for all but the most trivial
> tasks. Ubuntu is certainly not a server ready os either.
>
> 4 - 12 gigs with Windows 2k8 Server small business edition or Debian
> stable/CentOS I would think would be much better.
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv> wrote:
>
>> Not sure if anyone will find this interesting but I got off amazons
>> ec2 cloud service and onto gmail and RackspaceCloud.com.
>>
>> Racspace cloud servers are cheap. I'm guessing I'll spend $20 a month
>> for 1 ubuntu 10.04 server with 256mb of RAM and 10 gig of storage.
>> Works for me.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Anyone know much about Apache vs. Lighttpd, as far as performance and
resource demands? I prefer Lighttpd over Apache, but this is mainly
because Lighttpd seems a heck of a lot easier to configure.

I googled for benchmarks, but I'm having trouble sorting out results.

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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