GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

[Jeremie Le Hen]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:45:24PM +0300, tzabal at it.teithe.gr wrote:
> > In this case Apache is a good choice. I would however recommend using
> > www/nginx and PHP in FastCGI mode (FPM option in lang/php5 port). This
> > is a preffered setup for almost all Russian highloaded websites.
> > At the beginning using Apache is a reasonable choice.
> 
> I have never used nginx before. I have considered also the lighttpd.  
> Both with BSD licenses (nginx with a 2-clause BSD like license) and  
> FastCGI support. As I read from Wikipedia, PHP performance has  
> received special attention in lighttpd. I will test both Web servers  
> and then I will make up my mind.

I think the HTTP server is not a big deal unless there is a really
useful feature in one that the other doesn't provide.  Most of the work
will be done by the PHP backend anyway.

>From an architectural point of view, best practices nowadays are leaning
toward external PHP processes with FastCGI, as described by Ilya.  There
are alternatives to FPM, such as sysutils/py-supervisor.

I don't know who will be administrating this server in the end, but I
think it would be good to ask the FreeBSD webmaster team opinion though.

-- 
Jeremie Le Hen

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