Re: minivend and zeus

[Shao Zhang <shao@shaoz.dhs.org>]

Shawn Ramsey [shawn@cpl.net] wrote:
> Zeus is based on Apache, is it not? Im sure it would be quite easy to allow

	I don't think it is based on apache at all. Apache uses fork when new
	connections come in, whereas zues handles it internally. IN
	terms of performance and memory usage, zeus leads apache a long
	way. Personally, I would use apache since it is open source and
	very easy to set up, but if I am running a big company, 
	I would then use zeus...

> all programs to run as CGI, such as adding a ScriptAlias to whatever domain
> you run your Minivend under. If Zeus is a commercial Apache, and this can't
> be done. 

	Certainly zeus can do this. Maybe my original post is a bit
	misleading. It is just that we are hosting a couple of hundreds of
	web servers, and changing things like this would make it harder
	for us to maintain security stuff and so on...

	I was just wondering if minivend has the capability to do it. If
	not, then I will have to change the webserver's settings.

> I would say Zeus is not very good (or flexible).

	It can do everything apache can and a lot more. It also have a 
	very nice web interface for admin. You can do things like restart 
	a virtual web server without restart the whole process.

	I had similar view with you before, and I have argued this with
	my boss coz I insisted open source is the best. After I use
	zeus, I then realised this is just not true in the real world.

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