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alex.barylski
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File system recommendation

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For Linux (Debian Etch)...

Basically I'm looking for greatest performance, nothing fancy...

I'm looking to deliver a potentially massive amount of static (cached) files from a web server. Reliability is obviously important but performance is impetus.

http://www.linux-ha.org/

Is what I am looking into at the moment but if you know of anything better/faster I'm all ears. :D

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Well then apache is definately not best performance for static content...if..you thought of using apache that is :)
Donno about OS.
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Post by alex.barylski »

jmut wrote:Well then apache is definately not best performance for static content...if..you thought of using apache that is :)
Donno about OS.
I am using Apache, yes...but I imagine I could possibly use another httpd, but the file system still plays a role in delivery does it not?

What httpd server would you recommend?
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I don't really remember the name :( after some search now... I think that was the one I think about.
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

There is some chance also to be that one.
http://www.lighttpd.net/

I say think about..cause I personally haven't use it. Friend of mine is working on government projects , leading dev when elections are made - representing elections result online...Election is one day...and by the end of day...millions of people(media, foreign media etc etc) accessing the web site to see pre-results etc. So the results they show they generate with script and update like every 30min - 1hour...this way static content is serverd only and can handle tons of requests.... I know they didn't use apache ...but he's not online now..cannot ask what exactly was it.

P.S.
Some survey about apache running in different OS and conditions, just stumbled upon while googling...might be interesting.
http://student.iu.hio.no/~s132278/repor ... _multi.pdf
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to the list of lightweight web servers I would add nginx
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