george donnelly wrote:
getting back to my original question...
Those who have experience with Apache, Squid and Pound, which do you get the best results from in terms of site responsiveness (speediness) and robustness?
- If you need/want caching, nothing can beat Squid... Squid turns a low-end-server into an enterprise-mainframe (regarding cached pages)...;) But aggressive caching is no fun at all, if your clients use IE. IE's automatic page reload is buggy, so it can happen, that your clients don't see a new page for half a year. - If you don't need/want server-side-caching, Pound is a wonderful tool to protect Zope from the nasty internet. Easy to install, security-audited and VERY, VERY robust. I use it a lot and haven't had any troubles with it. Small and beautiful. I love it... Sure, it has no caching features at all... - If you need flexibility, use Apache... Personally I don't like the idea of running a web-server (Apache) in front of another web-server (Zope). But Apache is something like Emacs for the WWW... it can serve you even coffee... Cheers, Maik