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A. R. M. (ali@cafe.sdc.uwo.ca)
Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:32:35 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:32:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A. R. M." <ali@cafe.sdc.uwo.ca>
Subject: [mSQL] In Praise of Apache.
Message-Id: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970427203016.17287A-100000@cafe.sdc.uwo.ca>

Hello,

I used to have NCSA's httpd 1.5.2 server running on my SGI Challenge on a
site which at any given moment has about 25 connections (6000 hits a day
NOT counting the non-html files like images and sounds etc.). As such, my
site is the busiest of all University of Western Ontario's web sites.

As I am in the process of implementing a new database system using mSQL,
for security purposes I had to install Apache which has some features not
available in NCSA's yet.
After I installed Apache, I noticed a change in speed and so I asked the
university's network admin to run a program which floods the server in
order to see how many hits it can handle. Here is the results before and
after implementing a few things:

Machine: SGI Challenge S, IRIX 6.2, single processor, 180 MHZ, 64M ram

WEB SERVER INET STAND-ALONE KEEPALIVE* HITS/SEC.
NCSA 1.5.2 Y - N 4
NCSA 1.5.2 - Y Y(8p/conn.) 10.5
Apache 1.2b8 - Y Y 35.8

*KeepAlive only works with certain browsers.

As seen, changing the server to standalone sped up the server 2.5 times
and changing the server to Apache 3.5 times that! That, our network admin
said was the fastest he'd seen. :)

And I *USED TO* think that NCSA was the most popular server globally!
Needless to say I am now a "convert." A "defector!"

Oh, and on top of that, Apache works like a charm with Virtual Host which
I had been trying to get to work on NCSA with little (no) success.

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