Comments on: Web Server Quandary

By: Michael Schurter

Michael Schurter — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:00:18 +0000

@Seriously: Ha. I assume you’re joking/trolling, but actually I have administered an IIS6 server in the past. Had to run an ASP.NET application + PostgreSQL on a GoDaddy server. It was hellish to setup, obnoxious to maintain, and performed unbelievably awful.

I think the only reason it exists is because some developers can only code inside Visual Studio, and so the only web development platform available to them is ASP.NET + IIS. The Microsoft ghetto. *shudder*

By: Seriously

Seriously — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:48:56 +0000

Have you tried IIS6?

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By: Igal Koshevoy

Igal Koshevoy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:09:58 +0000

@Graham Dumpleton – Thanks for the suggestions on doing non-invasive Python webapp restarts with mod_wsgi. I was indeed using embedded mode, and all’s well now that I’ve switched to daemon mode.

By: Michael Schurter

Michael Schurter — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:11:18 +0000

Argh, I need to hurry up and do my tests and post a follow-up! Mea culpa.

@Michael Watkins:

SCGI sounds fine for Python apps, but once again I’m left with no clear “safe” way of supporting PHP. At least the one library I ran into quickly seemed awfully hackish (and I *hate* hacking PHP these days).

I love text config files for most things, but for some reason Cherokee’s web admin just clicked with me. Perhaps its because I’m a web developer first, sysadmin second. One less config file format to remember (especially Apache’s weird quasi-xml one) would be welcome. However, give me 6 months with Cherokee’s web admin, and I might be begging for vim access again.

I understand about the webmail solution in Python. I actually started writing one long ago but abandoned it when I switched jobs. The Edgewell crew started one called Posterity, but it looks very dead: http://posterity.edgewall.org/