Re: high availability

How does thttpd compare to the various commercial hardware solutions for serving images? Is it the best solution you know of for serving static images? Steve Nelson http://www.SecretAgents.com Tools for Fusebox Developers Joe Stump wrote: > > thttpd can be found at www.acme.com - it has the footprint of a fly and runs > totally within one thread. It can handle as many connections as you have file > descripters. > > --Joe > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:42:41PM -0500, Kulkarni, Vikram wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > By separating images from scripts, that also allows us to run a high > > performance web server for images (thttpd) and use Apache for our > > scripts. Apache is much more resource intensive, but needed (in > > our case) for dynamic data: > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > What is "thttpd"? Is it a web server that is optimized for images? Is it > > that much faster than Apache? > > > > Regards, > > > > Vikram Kulkarni > > > > > > ***************************************************************************** > > This message may contain privileged and confidential information. If you > > think, for any reason, that this message may have been addressed to you in > > error, you must not disseminate or copy this message, or use its content > > as the basis for taking any action. Further, we would ask you to notify > > us immediately by return e-mail, telephone or facsimile. > > ***************************************************************************** > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ================================================================================ > = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com > http://www.miester.org = > ================================================================================ > "Real programmers don't comment their code. > It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net --