Tag: Web Server Posts

Playing Around With Web Servers

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Obviously I’ve been spending a bit of time tweaking Apache such that it is well optimized for working in a VPS environment. Truthfully though, Apache is a major resource hog. To be honest, I really can’t comprehend what it’s doing with all that memory it seems to hoard. One of the other major downsides to Apache is that it forks additional processes to handle server load, and processes are rather heavy (at least when compared to user threads). Since I haven’t touched any C++ in about two months, I thought I’d try my hand at writing a quick web server to see if I can better understand some of problems. For now, I’m leveraging boost for all the threading, and just using simple select now for all the socket communication (I understand the limitations of select, and will probably move things to boost::asio when it’s all done). I originally wrote […]