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

From: Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv>
Date: Tue Jul 06 2010 - 16:56:13 AKDT

I looked into it. Looks interesting and I do believe it's faster. How
much faster is another question.

I'm use to apache. One thing I use is the apache rewrite module. You
can do the same thing in lighttpd but it's done differently. It's a
learning curve I don't have time for.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 6, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:

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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
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>> 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.
>>>
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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
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