A Lighter HTTP Server
I have been playing with the thttpd web server. Apache (which comes with the standard OpenBSD installation) is the world's most popular, and probably most powerful, web server. It is however too bloated for my wimpy Pentium MMX 166. I am very tempted to switch over to something lighter.
This article talks about Boa, another light web server. This somehow triggles my desire to switch. I looked at thttpd before, so naturally I pick thttpd to experiment again.
thttpd is fast and highly responsive. Its throttling control is easy to use and effective. I capped one of the websites it serves to 500 bytes per second, and the download rate hovers around this figure. Cool!
The switch is however not without problems, and there are pieces of puzzles which I need to solve before it could replace Apache on my server for good. It doesn't have PHP support, but this is okay with me at this stage, as none of the websites on my server needs it. I would like to run Movable Type on this server, but have yet to figure out how to setup a chroot environment with perl.
Updates to be posted.
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