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What web server do you use? (17)

02-26-2013 02:25 PM #1 caurmen (Administrator)
What web server do you use?

I'm preparing this week's tech tutorial, which will be on getting more out of your web server. However, unlike MySQL, there's not really a single obvious web server that everyone's likely to be using.

So - please take a second and tell me what web server you're running for your campaigns and tracking? If you're using several, tick all that are appropriate!

I shall, in turn, deliver some fine, fresh-baked optimisation tips in a couple of days!

02-26-2013 02:50 PM #2 h0mp (Member)

Got a few VPS and shared hosting.
a U1 rack server colocated.

I started out years ago with FreeSCO running on a pentium with 500mb hdd

02-26-2013 04:17 PM #3 vidivo (Member)

umm this is a stupid question but how do you tell? is there a fast way to find out all ur server details?

02-26-2013 04:46 PM #4 caurmen (Administrator)

@vidivo - there are no stupid questions!

This tool seems to work pretty well to tell what server you're running: http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/craftnet/

02-26-2013 04:55 PM #5 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

If you don't know its probably aposche.

02-26-2013 06:11 PM #6 butthole (Member)

I think a large portion of the forum members use beyond hosting vps/dedis.

02-27-2013 09:13 AM #7 caurmen (Administrator)

Good point - I probably should have asked that.

Is anyone running LiteSpeed, but NOT on Beyond Hosting?

02-27-2013 10:42 AM #8 theking (AMC Alumnus)

nginx

04-09-2014 10:06 PM #9 cent01 (Member)

Nginx

04-13-2014 08:51 PM #10 davidwikes81 (Member)

I am using Nginx, HAProxy , Openlitespeed, apache.

Sever never been bottleneck for me atleast. I don't like premature optimizations. Often DB is bottleneck. Better analysis is needed to detect bottleneck and remove ( or improve ) it from system.

But, i have personal preference for Ningx for its easy configuration. Devloped by a guy with taste. I don't like other closed source or patch work stuff.

04-13-2014 08:59 PM #11 waltermitty (Senior Member)

What are you guys using for your load testing?
loadimpact.com is good but they are expensive $$$.

04-13-2014 09:28 PM #12 afilia320 (Member)

Apache, but a tutorial on using and setting nginx would be appreciated!

04-13-2014 09:47 PM #13 panicore (Member)

Tweaked apache, still running fast enough.

04-13-2014 09:48 PM #14 panicore (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by waltermitty View Post
What are you guys using for your load testing?
loadimpact.com is good but they are expensive $$$.
A popunder campaign or redirect traffic?

04-13-2014 09:49 PM #15 davidwikes81 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by waltermitty View Post
What are you guys using for your load testing?
loadimpact.com is good but they are expensive $$$.
apache bench and ddos.

04-13-2014 10:11 PM #16 waltermitty (Senior Member)

Quote Originally Posted by panicore View Post
A popunder campaign or redirect traffic?
If you like wasting money HEH

04-14-2014 04:33 PM #17 caurmen (Administrator)

I'm a fan of Blitz.io for simple load testing - although if you want to get really hardcore about your load tests, you either need a multi-server JMeter setup or, as panicore mentions, you can just buy some uber-cheap redirect traffic for a few minutes

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