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- From: Bob Lindabury <bobl@bobsbox.rent.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: httpd for amiga?
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 08:11:01 -0400
- Organization: Raven Enterprises
- Message-ID: <30ED1555.2685@bobsbox.rent.com>
- References: <4c679v$1vt@ugress.uib.no> <565.6574T82T1174@ffi.no> <4cc03a$d0@hermes.cair.du.edu> <19960103.74936B8.801@contessa.phone.net>
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- Mike Meyer wrote:
- >
- > In <4cc03a$d0@hermes.cair.du.edu>, echadez@galileo.carl.org (Edward Chadez) wrote:
- > > Actually, wasn't the httpd ported from NCSA's httpd?? I've been using
- > > httpd and it works okay, too. Since I'd already set up a few httpd
- > > servers here at work, the ncsa version was the clear choice for me.
- >
- > Yes, the httpd port of NCSAs. I ran it before starting on AWS. At 500
- > requests/day, the HTTPD part was a bit flaky. At 1000 requests/hour,
- > AWS is pretty solid.
- >
- > I blame many of the problems of HTTPD on Unixisms that don't work well
- > on the Amiga. If you need the features of HTTPD that aren't in AWS, or
- > want experience with an outdated Unix server, or expect low hit rates,
- > it's a perfectly reasonable choice.
- >
- > I'd recommend going with AWS if you expect to have a serious server
- > and can live without the extra features. The size/speed difference
- > starts showing up in those cases.
- >
- > <mike
-
- I used to run httpd and then dumped it for AWS because it seemed to be
- buggy and didn't do things I needed. You can checkout my pages at
- www.graphics.rent.com. You can checkout imagemap and forms support at
- the following url's on my site: www.graphics.rent.com/dak
- www.graphics.rent.com/nuclear.
-
- Don't exepect it to be too fast since I'm on a modem connection to the
- net.
-
- -- Bob Lindabury
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