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

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