Lingerd & FastCGI & ModGzip

[nappa]

I would really like it if we could have an easy way to have lingerd installed - in the custom apache compiler.

http://www.iagora.com/about/software/lingerd/
It's a software that has been being used by the likes of Sourceforge, and have had great success in combatting Time_Wait problems that plague the apache systmes when there is many PHP applications running.

http://www.fastcgi.com/
FastCGI
I would love to have this instead of the mod_php. The benefit is only for those users who like to have PHP run as a PHPSusexc CGI out of security concerns. This gives security, and it gives performance.

I've been having problems with modGzip installation. I would actually love it if this install was automated like they have on Cpanel's EasyApache.

[ProWebUK]

Ill have this covered along with numerous other scripts and projects over the next few weeks (possibly more :rolleyes: )

Chris

[nappa]

* does fanboyish scream of joy *

NAPPA

[Daijoubu]

To truly exploit lingerd, you'll need to turn off Keep-Alive in Apache and off load static files to "light" httpd like:

http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/lighttpd (support load-balancing with fastcgi!)
http://boa.org

(There's also thttpd, but it doesn't support Keep-Alive)

Oh and hi nappa (From IPB ;))

[nappa]

!! First I see you in WHT, and now here !! HEHE.


I've tried Mathopd thus far. It's good. Even Apache stripped is quite fast. Though I'm not how fast I want to make my picture server to be. IT seems the more I make it faster, the more people want to download from that one particular site - the more I got to pay for bandwidth :(

I'm all for saving my bandwidth with mogzip though :(

NAPPA
* who is deathly afraid of stopping HTTPD forever with a mistake *

[Daijoubu]

mathopd is fast but seems to be a little bogus
http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/lighttpd/benchmark

Anyhow, mod_gzip won't help images since they're already compressed ;)

[nappa]

Thanks for the link :) I'm looking at it. I especially need the hotlinking blocking feature. and the ability to run on one IP only. ^.^

I've never heard of this program before, and I'm very interested in seeing the results :)

I wonder if the logs can be made to fake being from apache..... I would love it if it were. No more problems of not knowing where the bandwidth is going.

I do realise that images won't be compressed. But - see the HTML pages will be compressed. And that will save me a few problems. The pages would be sent off faster, and I can get more requests. Though I'm not sure if that's really a good news. The more I seem to give bandwidth to this server, the more people want stuff from it :(

Some pf the pages are 30 - 60KB with tables tested in more tables :(

[Daijoubu]

Keep in mind that no compressed html can be cached by browsers, IE is unable to cache gzipped content :)
If you ever use gzip, make sure to set the compression level to 1 to not kill the CPU ;)

[nappa]

Did you mean Gzip in mod_gzip ? I thought it hadn't been implemented. !

[Daijoubu]

No, gzip have 10 compression level, from 0 to 9
Level 1 should acheive a pretty high compression level already, ~70%
Using the default level of 6 only leads to little gain, around ~75-80% but use much more CPU cycles