On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Michael Garriss wrote:

> kwatch wrote:
>
> >You can try 'esehttpd'
> >http://ghost.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/esehttpd/en/index.html
> >
> >It is very fast as HTTP server and CGI engine,
> >twice (or more) as fast as Apache + mod_ruby.
> >
> >
>
> Why am I just now hearing about this?!  Ugh.  $40 on an apache book, oh
> well, now I can put apache on my resume and forget about it.  ;)  Thanks
> for the link.

this looks o.k. - but the ENTIRE webserver is blocked when running ONE cgi
program.  eg. it's not a forking server.  if you want speed, ease of
development, safety, and _scalability_ i'd check out using apache/fastcgi/ruby
- might want to hang on to that apache book. ;-)

-a

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