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SubjectRe: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Zach Brown wrote:

> So I'm all for hacking a better static model into apache that maintains
> apache's ultra-configurability. And yes, that is in the works. But I
> personally find it exceedingly silly to put http in the kernel at this
> point, for the usual avoid-code-in-the-kernel reasons. Run phhttpd along
> side apache and do url magic if you so desire (not that its anywhere
> ready for prime time, and you need kernel patches for siginfo to work,
> etc).

Or use squid to front apache... this way you can continue to have one url
space, which is a huge bonus. From experience it is a pain to try to
maintain multiple hostnames (your publishing tools need to all work
properly, your web developers need to not screw it up); and it is
impossible to use multiple ports (some lame firewalls restrict http to
port 80 alone).

A solution like squid lets you build in load balancing, and failover...
this is one way that folks build big websites using commodity hardware --
use a bunch of small boxes with a proxy in front, and a
fileserver/database behind. Going to multicpu boxes usually is not worth
it, when you can increase your uptime by adding more boxes.

(I don't recommend Apache's proxy for this application... I don't
recommend it for anything actually...)

Dean



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