Poll: What web server do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by aarongough » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

I think Thin should be added to the list as well, given that many newer Rack deployments are using it...

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by mgrouchy » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:38 PM UTC

We use Apache with ModWsgi and Nginx, pretty standard for a django project.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by pavs » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:41 PM UTC

I am currently using Apache and its the only web server I ever used, I have looked in to Lighttpd and Nginx but never actually used it. Can anyone tell me why I should use the other two over Apache? The main reason I am using Apache because it has a large user base, community and documentation that I can rely on if I ever need any help.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by uggedal » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:41 PM UTC

Nginx and gunicorn.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by Ixiaus » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:42 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #10

Fiddling around with mochiweb a bit... Other than that, Apache.

YAWS I've been playing with...

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by wendroid » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:44 PM UTC

My LAMP is actually OAPP (OpenBSD Apache Postgresql PHP) Though I have been graduallt migrating to

LLWP (Linux, Lighttpd, Werc, Postgresql)

I might change Werc to Go on the next project.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by ErrantX » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:44 PM UTC

pavs wrote: post #13

I am currently using Apache and its the only web server I ever used, I have looked in to Lighttpd and Nginx but never actually used it. Can anyone tell me why I should use the other two over Apache? The main reason I am using Apache because it has a large user base, community and documentation that I can rely on if I ever need any help.

Lighty/Nginx are, I found, "nicer" in general.

Easier to configure, can handle high loads with a lot less resources, more verbose configuration.

All 3 are a reasonable choice though.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by bnoordhuis » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

pavs wrote: post #13

I am currently using Apache and its the only web server I ever used, I have looked in to Lighttpd and Nginx but never actually used it. Can anyone tell me why I should use the other two over Apache? The main reason I am using Apache because it has a large user base, community and documentation that I can rely on if I ever need any help.

Can't vouch for lighty (though I suppose the same applies) but nginx is much, much faster than Apache. nginx was designed with speed in mind, Apache with reliability[1] and extensibility.

[1] Apache's internal API is designed to make it difficult to leak memory or other resources, overrun buffers, etc.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by ax0n » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:49 PM UTC

Chrooted Apache on OpenBSD for my public-facing web servers, thank you very much. Can't sleep. Skript kiddiez will kill me.

Re: Poll: What web server do you use?

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Post by bmelton » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:50 PM UTC

pavs wrote: post #13

I am currently using Apache and its the only web server I ever used, I have looked in to Lighttpd and Nginx but never actually used it. Can anyone tell me why I should use the other two over Apache? The main reason I am using Apache because it has a large user base, community and documentation that I can rely on if I ever need any help.

The main reason I switched to Nginx is that it uses dramatically less memory than Apache. Running a semi-popular message board, I was eating through 4Gb of memory between Apache and MySQL on Ubuntu, and simply switching over to Nginx was faster and freed up over 1Gb of allocated memory immediately.

Since then, I've grown to dramatically prefer its configuration file syntax and usability.