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Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by weberc2 »

bhauer wrote: post #2

h2o certainly delivers on its promise of performance. In terms of request routing and HTTP fundamentals, it's among the fastest [1]. Check out the h2o implementation of the TechEmpower Fortunes test [2] to get a feel for something slightly more complex. [1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=... [2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

I'm a little surprised to see it performing worse than some Go, Java, and C# webservers. I wonder why that is (presumably less optimized)? Not that it matters since the HTTP server is not going to be the bottleneck of any real application. Still, a curiosity.

Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by rajeshpant »

I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation :

"H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok.

"H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great

This is where it becomes cringy : "H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use"

more

"I have used more web server frameworks than is reasonable. libh2o is by far the most impressive effort "

"The H2O maintainers are incredibly friendly and helpful."

I scrolled half the page and still doesn't provide any useful information.

If you happen to write or own any documentation. Please don't use filler use marketing language. Please.

Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by labster »

shocks wrote: post #4

This is literally just a text document. Why do I see a blank page unless I enable JavaScript? :(

This is no mere text document, it's a hypertext document, with interactive features like clickable links that take you to other portions of the document! Until we invent a specialized language for hypertext, JavaScript is the best we can do.

Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by st3fan »

rajeshpant wrote: post #12

I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation : "H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok. "H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great This is where it becomes cringy : "H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use" more "I have used more web serve…

There are 17 sections of which 16 are technical and you complain about the “Hello and Welcome” ???

Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by quelltext »

sureaboutthis wrote: post #6

Well, now I'm confused. I've been using this h2o server for a year now: https://h2o.examp1e.net/ Methinks there may be a naming issue here. EDIT: So I clicked around and it looks like the same thing. Perhaps a collaboration. I need to further investigate.

H2O is the same project (though this seems to be an offshoot). AFAIK its maintainer moved to Fastly some time ago.

Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by ahubert »

rajeshpant wrote: post #12

I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation : "H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok. "H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great This is where it becomes cringy : "H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use" more "I have used more web serve…

Hi Rajesh, thank you for your thoughtful critique of my documentation efforts! I took a look at the sentences that are hurting you. The first part is from H2O's mission statement, which is clearly quoted. H2O is very impressive and is seeing more and more use. The h2o maintainers are indeed very friendly and helpful. But perhaps that is because I approached them with respect and did not hate them for their mission statement? We may never know. If you have anything useful to add, the document can be edited through https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-libh2o

Re: Hello, and welcome to libh2o

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Post by rajeshpant »

ahubert wrote: post #19
rajeshpant wrote: post #12

I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation : "H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok. "H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great This is where it becomes cringy : "H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use" more "I have used more web serve…

Hi Rajesh, thank you for your thoughtful critique of my documentation efforts! I took a look at the sentences that are hurting you. The first part is from H2O's mission statement, which is clearly quoted. H2O is very impressive and is seeing more and more use. The h2o maintainers are indeed very friendly and helpful. But perhaps that is because I approached them with respect and did not hate them for their mission st…

Thank you very much for replying. I will take a look at the docs & github repo more closely and provide suggestions.
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