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Is it really just re-branded Apache? It seems like vanilla Apache isn't capable of the low response times that Google has. What Apache extensions/modifications

• currysausage 12y ago
  Who said Apache isn't capable of low response times?
  • Aqueous 12y ago
    It seems incapable of the lowest response times, which it seems like Google has. Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead. In my experience nginx, which keeps several worker processes open and processes requests asynchronously is much faster.
    • pling 12y ago
      Apache has a prefork MPM procesas model that allows it to run in the same way.
      • takeda 12y ago
        I don't know much about it, but I would think that event based mpm would be the fastest.
        • y0ghur7_xxx 12y ago
          Depends on what you need to do. Apache has it all: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
          • takeda 12y ago
            Yep that's what I meant. I believe event based would be faster than the prefork that pling suggested.
    • y0ghur7_xxx 12y ago
      > Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead. Apache does not fork a new process to handle a request. Not even in prefork mode.
• frik 12y ago
  Back in 2007, Apache, Lighttpd (Youtube) and custom Java server ("faster than Tomcat"). Nowadays some services probably based on nginx, others written in-house and some may still be on forked Apache. The Google Web Server - a custom server used only by Google itself - was originally built from open-source Apache code, according to a former Google employee. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/google_web_server_based_on_apache/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/google_web_server_ba...