A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#1

Post by timothy89 » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

A fast and static web server for serving web apps
shortfin.io

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#2

Post by tunnuz » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

You're from Lund! I've been studying in Lund!

By the way, can you show some statistics and performance metrics with respect to nginx, Apache and such?

To put it another way: why did you choose to write your own webserver instead of using, say, nginx?

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#3

Post by sciurus » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

There's a sample configuration at https://raw.github.com/timothyej/Shortfin/master/config/shor...

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#4

Post by babuskov » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

I don't get it. You create a server to solve C10K problem, and then host its own website with nginx? Why?

Having HN crowd coming and testing your server would be a great test, no?

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#5

Post by davidcollantes » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:10 PM UTC

tunnuz wrote: post #2

You're from Lund! I've been studying in Lund! By the way, can you show some statistics and performance metrics with respect to nginx, Apache and such? To put it another way: why did you choose to write your own webserver instead of using, say, nginx?

I am curious too, on the performance metrics. He is still using Nginx though.

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#6

Post by dictum » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:11 PM UTC

>wget http://shortfin.io/install.sh && sh install.sh

Isn't it recommended that any project doing one-line installs use HTTPS?

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

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Post by clone1018 » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #4

I don't get it. You create a server to solve C10K problem, and then host its own website with nginx? Why? Having HN crowd coming and testing your server would be a great test, no?

The actual site is down for me too, http://shortfin.io:88/

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

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Post by SirSkidmore » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

clone1018 wrote: post #7

babuskov wrote: post #4

I don't get it. You create a server to solve C10K problem, and then host its own website with nginx? Why? Having HN crowd coming and testing your server would be a great test, no?

The actual site is down for me too, http://shortfin.io:88/

The link works fine for me.

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

#9

Post by kajecounterhack » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #4

I don't get it. You create a server to solve C10K problem, and then host its own website with nginx? Why? Having HN crowd coming and testing your server would be a great test, no?

I think in this case nginx is being used as a reverse proxy.

Re: A fast and static web server for serving web apps

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Post by chc » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

dictum wrote: post #6

>wget http://shortfin.io/install.sh && sh install.sh Isn't it recommended that any project doing one-line installs use HTTPS?

In the same way that it's recommended for any other program, yes.