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Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked
worb writes "Opera Unite comes with a web server which is supposedly going to 'redefine the web.' But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times faster, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times faster. He concludes that Opera Unite's server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use."
You know, I didn't think this was going to get so much attention on /. But here we are going on 2+ threads in a week about this product. I was going to post the 2 hacks I found in the webserver, but I think I'll wait until a bunch of people use it then sell the backdoors to the highest bidder.
So what? It's a somewhat slow web server. It's easy, guys. If you want to leave your home machine naked to the net, use real and tested server software. If you want to do all the tasks done by Unite but easier, get cheap or free web hosting and a Facebook page.
Wow i've only seen more fanfare and general fanboyism on with apple products. I seriously think if Apple bought Opera there would be a major terrorist attack involving 10 million fan boys jizzing their pants. It would really be a messy sight. I look forward to posts on this thread about this replacing apache and people using Unite as a production server.
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