Re: Bad rap

All our experiences at work with nginx/psgi & nginx/fastcgi are poor - 
it is very good if any of your queries takes any length of time and/or 
the fastcgi/psgi requests are requested a lot relative to the static 
content served by nginx then there are quite significant 
error/performance issues.... In our case the only static files are 
mainly images.. The rest of the content is dynamic - whether it is 
server cached pages or real dynamic content...

We have a load balancing proxy in-front of our apaches so we can fork 
content elsewhere that is to be served fast! We don't because Apache 
itself is fast enough! Admittedly we have taken a lot of care to reduce 
the overall number of requests to a minimum (page, 1 CSS, 1 JS + a 
handful of images per page)

The hacks we would have to do in PSGI/FastCGI to get these features 
would probably be negated by the move away from Apache....

Apache is fast enough if you use it properly!!


On 6/13/2016 11:58 AM, John Dunlap wrote:
>
> Speaking as someone would like to migrate to Nginx, at some point, the 
> big advantage of Nginx really has nothing to do with mod_perl. It has 
> to do with Apache. The way Apache processes requests is fundamentally 
> slower than Nginx and, consequently, Nginx scales better.
>
> On Jun 13, 2016 6:54 AM, "James Smith" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Just posted:
>
>     mod_perl is a much better framework that PSGI, FastCGI IF you make
>     use of the integration of perl into all the stages of apache (you
>     can hook into about 15 different stages in the Apache life cycle.
>
>     We make of extensive use of the input, output filters, AAA-layers,
>     clean up, logging, server startup, etc processes then it is one of
>     the best web frameworks you can use.
>
>     We have sites where content is produced by either being static,
>     mod_perl, php, and java (or proxied back from some ancient CGI
>     software) all processed by the same mod_perl code in the output
>     filter to look the same! or different if was using a different site!
>
>     If all you are interested in is wrapping CGI scripts in a cached
>     interpreter for performance then yes you can move to one of these
>     other frameworks - but then you have already spent lots of time
>     and effort implementing the features that are virtually free with
>     apache/mod_perl!
>
>
>     On 6/11/2016 7:11 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote:
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     See this post on reddit :
>>
>>     https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/4n5seo/apache_22_mod_perl_to_nginx/
>>
>>     Please help set the record straight. Ancient technology WTF?
>>
>>
>
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 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research 
 Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a 
 company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered 
 office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.