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High-End Apache

Posted by timothy on from the upper-crust dept.

BoarderPhreak writes: "Everything Solaris today posted a follow-up to the original 'Apache: The Basics' article entitled, 'Apache: Handling Traffic' which goes into detail about various methods of load-balancing and redundancy and mentions using Rsync for replication."

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  1. Site is Fine... by BoarderPhreak · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    It's actually being served over a cable modem, using frame forwarding since my cable provider decided to block port 80 (to "protect me from Nimba) and never opened it up again... It causes problems with some firewalls or ISPs and certain versions of Netscape like that found on Linux. :(

  2. Re:Broken site? by Polo · · Score: 2

    yeah, haven't been able to view port 84 through
    proxy...

  3. Re:apache is dying by Christopher+Cashell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would you like to back up your statements with facts, or should I just file your post under the "useless trolling post filled with garbage passed off as facts"?

    The latest Netcraft survey shows Apache having gained, with IIS having dropped slightly, and Apache is still well over 50%.

    Apache 2.0 is progressing nicely, and the latest 1.3.x release was made only a few weeks ago. How exactly does that show that 2.0 isn't slated for release, and the code is going closed?

    Lastly, even if your groundless statements were true, why in the world would we start over writing a web server? We've got the source for Apache, and it's a pretty slick web server. Don't you think it'd make more sense to continue it's development, forked if needed (which isn't needed)?

    Bah.

    --
    Topher
  4. Re:apache is dying by BoarderPhreak · · Score: 2
    Well said. Thanks. :)

    Apache dying? Sheesh.

  5. Re:apache is dying by BoarderPhreak · · Score: 2
    Apache is seriously behind the times with their 2.x release - I agree. While it's definitely "slipping" I wouldn't say it's "dying."

    The Apache group is great and all, but they really need to get off their collective asses and get 2.x finished, in my ever-so-humble opinion.

  6. Re:a bit thin by BoarderPhreak · · Score: 2

    Thanks, Dan - yes it is meant as more of an intro, at least initially. More detail and content will probably be added from time to time. As for rsync, there's a separate article about that - see the link in the article leading to "A Tutorial on Using Rsync." There's also some additional information that is apropos in the "Providing Core Customer Services" article.