Re: Caching (was Re: choosing the right platform)

On Thursday 10 April 2003 15:04, you wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:16:36PM -0400, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > Thanks for all the feedback, this is very informative.
> >
> > Here are some of the performance suggestions I've heard, please, if I
> > mis-understood, could you help me get clarity?
> > * It's better to run fewer apache children and turn off persistent
> > connections (I had suggested 200 children per server, someone else
> > suggested 40)
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I'm coming in a bit late and slightly OT here, but one common Apache
> solution you might want to look at is a "reverse proxy" configuration.
> This works very well if there's a good proportion of static vs dynamic
> content on your site - if your pages contain a lot of graphics then this
> may well be the case.
>
> To do this, you compile 2 Apache servers listening on different ports on

Umm.. AFAIK, if you use fastCGI, persistence of connection should be a lot
better and <self drumming on> or OAS Server, which gives you explicit control
on how much resources to allocate. </self drumming on>

Shridhar