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Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably (Linux.com)
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fnord. "I was looking for a lightweight Web server to run on my
ARM-based Linksys NSLU2 network storage device in order to share a few
custom packages I've built for Debian and Arch Linux among the systems on
my home network. After playing around with Apache, LightTPD, and thttpd, I
tried fnord and never looked back."
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Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably (Linux.com) Posted Nov 1, 2006 5:20 UTC (Wed) by jhs (subscriber, #12429) [Link] To reduce heat and wear-and-tear, our office file server boots from a 64MB compact flash card (via an IDE adaptor). It is a relatively standard Sarge system, except I made a custom initrd to untar the filesystem into tmpfs (so the flash card is used read-only).
Anyway, I have had pretty good luck with the Thy server. I'm not sure how it compares against other software these days, but it shipped in Sarge, which was the primary motivation for me at that time. I use it to serve some Trac projects via CGI.
Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably (Linux.com) Posted Nov 1, 2006 9:50 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] trac can run its own server. Running it through CGI (as opposed to fast-cgi) seems like an awful performance hit.
Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably (Linux.com) Posted Nov 1, 2006 12:31 UTC (Wed) by jhs (subscriber, #12429) [Link] Thanks. At this point, I don't even remember why I did it that way. Maybe Trac didn't have that feature yet; or (more likely) I had it working with Apache already but I needed to squeeze it in 64MB; or maybe (most likely) I was just lazy.
Anyway, I'm still using Trac. It's quite nice; I recommend it for internal and small team projects.
Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably (Linux.com) Posted Nov 1, 2006 23:07 UTC (Wed) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] The same author has also produced gatling, a stand-alone http server with extreme performance.
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