Re: load balancing

["Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/06, Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> :Is this kind of change something that can be done just by changing
> :the server's config files?  Or would it involve rewriting code?
>
>     It's pretty basic to the design of the http server.  Apache is a fairly
>     heavy weight web server.  I'm sure you can find lighter-weight servers
>     to serve out static content.  There is really no need to go to such
>     extremes unless you are actually running a busy site.  On busy sites it
>     is often a very good idea to separate the static content out from the
>     dynamic content and to serve the static content from a different machine
>     entirely.


lighttpd comes to mind.. very good for static content, and it uses the
mentioned arquitecture (1 main thread + kqueue/poll)...
http://www.lighttpd.net/


best regards,

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Miguel Sousa Filipe