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Joe

Member

Cherokee Web server

Anyone heard of it? They claim to be faster than Apache. Anyway it's nice to see some competition and choices (IIS never was an option).

arithma

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

there's also nginx and lighttpd i think.. I may have spelled wrong; apache is not going solo on this

Ayman

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

I haven't heard of Cherokee, yet I will check it out, but actually Lighttpd is becoming a strong competitor to Apache , It is faster and takes less time to configure, it has minimal footprint and is very good at serving static content, and it can scale very well across multiple servers. :)

Kassem

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

WAMP is all what I use for local testing. I'm not sure about the other servers but the Apache which comes with WAMP is more than enough for local testing. I guess those other server you guys mentioned are for web hosts, but do they fully support PHP?

Joe

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

Here's a benchmark showing the speed of Cherokee compared to apache, lighttpd and nginx.

I'm not claiming this is true (it does come from the Cherokee website). I'm just curious about them.

rolf

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

I would try Yaws, if I had to find an Apache alternative. It's performance seems to be consistent all-round and I like using different technologies and concepts (Yaws is written in Erlang).
Cherokee looks good nevertheless.

samer

Admin

Re: Cherokee Web server

there's also nginx and lighttpd i think.. I may have spelled wrong; apache is not going solo on this

We're actually running on an nginx web server :)
It eats way less RAM than apache and serves content faster.
A downside is that harder to configure than Apache, but it's definitely worth it on the long run, especially if you're running a heavy-traffic website.

arithma

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

We're actually running on an nginx web server :)

Well as we're on the topic, could you provide us some more info samer about this setup? It seems fast enough, and handles traffic quite smoothly, I guess. A VPS, shared hosting, server slice, a dedicated server..?

samer

Admin

Re: Cherokee Web server

We're actually running on an nginx web server :)

Well as we're on the topic, could you provide us some more info samer about this setup? It seems fast enough, and handles traffic quite smoothly, I guess. A VPS, shared hosting, server slice, a dedicated server..?

We're running on a VPS with 256MB of RAM :)

arithma

Member

Re: Cherokee Web server

OK, so I ordered one too a while ago. Mine is from rackspace cloud. I use it mainly for holding my svn repository (works through an svn module for apache) and to host a few stuff. I also used godaddy for some client.
I'll open another thread to share my experience with each soon. Hope you'll contribute.