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Re: Cherokee Webserver, "The Fastest", Really?

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Post by thibaut_barrere » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 12:10 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #8

Any claims about "fastest webserver" also need to add the qualifier "free". Because I believe litespeed is faster, though the free version has a simultaneous connection limit. It's even faster than nginx in some cases. http://blog.litespeedtech.com/2010/01/06/benchmark-compariso... Also, litespeed is practically a drop-in replacement for apache since it can obey httpd.conf and .htaccess files which no other webserver…

I second that - one client of mine has been using the free version for years to host a couple of rails app and are very happy with it.

For Rails work these days though, I'm using passenger with either nginx or apache.

Re: Cherokee Webserver, "The Fastest", Really?

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Post by StavrosK » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 1:13 PM UTC

Forgive my ignorance, but when does this actually matter? My application can't run anywhere near that speed, so time spent at the webserver level is less than 1% of the total response...

For static files or cached pages, I can maybe understand the fuss.

Re: Cherokee Webserver, "The Fastest", Really?

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Post by tghw » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 3:56 PM UTC

The benchmarks they link to are from 2008. Not sure what the fuss is about.

Re: Cherokee Webserver, "The Fastest", Really?

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Post by zizzler » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 4:38 PM UTC

plantain wrote: post #4

The author of g-wan appears to be quite paranoid about his competitors... http://gwan.ch/en_jihad.html http://gwan.ch/en_complexity.html

Being paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you.

Re: Cherokee Webserver, "The Fastest", Really?

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Post by zizzler » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 4:55 PM UTC

zizzler wrote: post #14

plantain wrote: post #4

The author of g-wan appears to be quite paranoid about his competitors... http://gwan.ch/en_jihad.html http://gwan.ch/en_complexity.html

Being paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you.

I mean if this http://gwan.com/en_dns.html happened to me I would be paranoid too.