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Preferred Web Server MU (7 posts)

  1. cogmios
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    im running apache currently. im thinking about switching it. im not interested in any other performance except for cpu usage. basically i dont care how long it takes before a user gets the page i only want the overall cpu usage to be the lowest.

    should i deinstall apache then install nginx OR
    should i only install nginx as a frontend proxy/cache?

    or has anyone good reasons for e.g lighttpd instead of nginx?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_servers

  2. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    You don't care how long it takes before the user gets the page? The user might care though.....

  3. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    I believe that lighttpd 1.4, the current version that comes down via apt-get, does not support wpmu as it breaks the flash uploader. (I believe there's actually code within wp and wpmu that will state this as such and kick out an error.) You'll have to install 1.5 which is still technically in beta and you'll have to manually install it. Not a major reason but they may be of concern to you.

  4. cogmios
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    lol i was exaggerating steve, on the other hand... more cpu costs me more money and if the income is low then there is no money for another cpu...so the user has to suffer. simple. :)

    i turned off gzip compression because i'm currently at 97% constant processor usage. Then i read about "Nginx provides another compression module called gzip precompression (available as of version 0.6.24). This module looks for a compressed copy of the file with a .gz extension in the same location and serves it to gzip-enabled clients. This prevents having to compress the file each time it's requested. " which sounds VERY cool.

    I think Im convinced. Im going to kill Apache and get nginx.

  5. cogmios
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

  6. cogmios
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    @ tdjcbe : thanks!

    Hmmm... I stumbled upon Lightspeed... http://www.litespeedtech.com/overview.html ... also sounds good.

    Pretty hard to tell which one is the best replacement.

  7. stefanbg
    Member
    Posted 13 years ago #

    Hi Cogmios,

    Any luck with your testing? Did you finally manage to improve your CPU performance?

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