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An Overview of the Boa Web Server

Posted by Hemos on from the smal-pretty-small dept.

Gentu writes "There is a pretty new and little known, lite web server in town, named Boa. The server can run very fast on older machines, even on embedded devices, but it is only CGI-based. OSNews introduces Boa (running under Linux) and it includes some preliminary benchmarks against Apache and thttpd."

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  1. Boa vs. Apache? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny


    If Boa is too constricting, you might want to switch back to good ol' Apache

    Bah dum bah!

    1. Re:Boa vs. Apache? by billybob2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does it suppport Python?

      And how's the scale-ability?

    2. Re:Boa vs. Apache? by twoslice · · Score: 3, Funny

      If Boa is too constricting, you might want to switch back to good ol' Apache

      I believe that the Tag line switch was coined by Apple...

      Ellen Feiss talking about switching from Boa to OSX Server:

      I was like using this web server...

      and like it was really fast....

      and it was showing my website when...

      Boop Beep Buh Deep Bip Bop...

      It went poof! Gone! It was like... ...
      ...
      ...
      ...

      Bummer

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  2. Re:performance info is useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nice metaphor. You can make pie out of both of them.

  3. Better yet... by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Funny


    How well does it fork?

  4. Re:performance info is useless by LinuxHam · · Score: 3, Funny

    somehow i knew you'd be sending us to mrtg charts, but i was hoping it was going to chart eth0 traffic or something.. you know, give us a goal, something to work towards!! :)

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  5. Stress Test by bytesmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

    So was having the website linked directly from a Slashdot article their way of stress testing their software?

    Apparently, its load handling just isn't up to the task yet. ;)

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  6. Re:I'm unimpressed by __past__ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah, PHP? Try awk, Bash or Postscript for a thrill!

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  7. Re:performance info is useless by PunchMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or maybe you're in a situation where you're considering both, and it MIGHT be convenient to use the full Apache feature set, but might be willing to work around deficiencies to have better performance.

    Pardon me, but is sounds like you're suggesting we "use the right tool for the right job". Now I don't know if you're from k5 or where, but here on /., we don't do things that way.

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  8. Pretty nice server... by mindriot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...with an especially nice screen shot... :-)

  9. Re:Still slower than ZWS by YoungHack · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because you're doing it wrong. You compare by cross multiplying. Instead of (featuresApache)/(priceApache) vs. (featuresOther)/(priceOther) you do (featuresApache)*(priceOther) vs (featuresOther)*(priceApache).

    And Apache wins.