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Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by nix23 » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 8:53 AM UTC

creshal wrote: post #10

Replace C/httpd with golang and you get a stack that's fairly decent.

Replace golang with elixir and phoenix, and you have a fairly reliable stack ;)

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by adrianN » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 8:56 AM UTC

Writing web-facing code in C in 2021 is seldomly a good idea, even if it runs on OpenBSD in a jail.

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by rambambram » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 9:10 AM UTC

Still very happy with my CHAMP-stack (CSS, HTML, Apache, MySQL and PHP).

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by kristapsdz » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

To answer questions so far (I'm the author of learnbhcs): yes, folks use BSD to host servers (if you want HTTP/2, there's nginx, etc.); kcgi interfaces with either CGI or FastCGI depending upon what the caller wants; yes, folks use this.

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by _ph_ » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

creshal wrote: post #10

Replace C/httpd with golang and you get a stack that's fairly decent.

I don't know why you are downvoted - this is one of the tasks, where Go is just a better C. I do like the approach of this stack, having a slim stack with a staticly compiled web page. But switching to Go gives the developer much more safety and quicker development for the custom part. C is great for developing components like sqlite - which are well tested and only slowly evolving. But the quick changing custom code in a web site, there Go shines.

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by dangerface » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:03 AM UTC

LAC-Tech wrote: post #9

Any one use open BSD to host servers? Last time I checked httpd didn't support http/2.

I use freebsd and nginx in production its a great system super stable

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by dangerface » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:08 AM UTC

Doing web development in c and getting that sweet performance boost is very tempting but the time it takes to develop even a simple website is just not worth it. I would rather spend a few pound extra on servers and goto the cinema than the hours of developer time it would take to build PHP sites in C++

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by ratorx » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

creshal wrote: post #10

Replace C/httpd with golang and you get a stack that's fairly decent.

I can recommend Go for this too. I use it for small APIs. Go has really easy cross compiling as well, so deploying from Linux to OpenBSD is really simple.

I still use httpd as the proxy but use compiled Go executables for CGI.

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by Asdrubalini » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

Using a ARNP stack here (ArchLinux, Rust, nginx, PostgreSQL). It works great.

Re: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

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Post by turminal » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:31 AM UTC

LAC-Tech wrote: post #9

Any one use open BSD to host servers? Last time I checked httpd didn't support http/2.

> Last time I checked httpd didn't support http/2

Some would argue that's a feature.