Re: Tux + Apache

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:24:21 -0400

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:11:48PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> > Can I get some feedback on the use of Tux and Apache working together.
> I am
> > looking to replace my company's intranet, currently using
> linux-mandrake
> > with a RH 9 system. If I could get some feedback from tux+apache users
> it
> > would help me decide on using tux+apache.
>
> Tux and Apache are both web servers. Why would you want to run both?

Tux is a web content accelerator. It's purpose is not to provide a full
blown web server but to serve static content VERY fast (though lately it's
aquired the ability to serve dynamic content). Apache on the other hand
is a full blown web server. Tux is supposed to run in front of a web server
to deliver static content quickly and pass other requests to the backend
web server.

> Tux was an experiment in increasing the speed of web servers by
> incorporating the server code in the kernel. Many of the speed
> improvements that were created by the project have been incorporated
> into Apache.

Hardly. Most (if not all) speed improvements came from having direct access
to some kernel structures and buffers. Apache is utterly unable to do this.
Setup a machine with both and do some benchmarks and you'll see for yourself.

> Personally, I would never run Tux. I believe that it is too great a
> security risk. Not because it has any more holes than any other piece
> of software, but because if it is compromised, the attacker has full and
> total authority on your machine.

I have been running Tux for over a year to accelerate the delivery of
images for a website. Since it's a site with an awful lot of images
(over 2Gb of images on the site) fast image delivery was a must. I agree
that in a security breach situation Tux is more dangerous than Apache or
other web servers, but so far staying current with redhat's errata has been
enough (servers are still behind a firewall) to prevent any compromise.

> Stick with Apache. It's quite fast enough, and *much* safer.

This will depend on your specific site and situation. If you have funds to
buy more servers, then you can just add more apache nodes to a cluster to
keep up with content demand. If you don't have the funds, you had better
go looking for all performance enhancements you can or risk degraded
performance.

Cheers,

-- 
Javier Gostling D.
<jgd@samwan.homeip.net>
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