Cherokee webserver; just stupid hosting

[bityugov]

hi

I'm very thankful x10hosting provides very advanced hosting for free. I wonder if it is possible to provide less for people who need less. I don't need cpanel and an advanced webserver like apache, I would settle for a fast server like Cherokee.

Maybe people can take this is consideration.

 

[Corey]

As we grow if this idea becomes more popular it's something we could look into.

 

[bityugov]

thanks for your reply. if the time is there i am happy to allocate time for maintaining such a machine if you need someone for this. i imagine the following:

user registers with small hosting, default e-mail or mx record. and gets a chrooted ftp account. (I don't know the x10hosting infrastructure, if there is a big file storage system or if the storage is per server). Cherokee gets its virtual configuration for this new users page.

Cherokee can handle a lot of static webpages at once. And outperforms many (maybe all) other static webservers (like boa, lighttpd)

 

[Brandon]

For static pages I recommend thttpd...http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

 

[bityugov]

Don't want to start a flamewar

http://www.alobbs.com/news/104

Very old version of Cherokee (0.4.3) now close to 0.6.0:

reqs / s
Apache 3953.40
Boa 12287.60
Cherokee 20426.30
thttpd 4347.81

 

[Starshine]

We could always go back to the grand ol' days of Bulletin Board Systems. *laughs*
Actually, the updated version of one I had purchased long ago is pretty awesome for what it does online. ( http://www.gcomm.com/home.htm )
I am thinking of getting it again, once I get some $$.

I miss those days.

 

[Brandon]

@Starshine - Where's the bulletin board product page?

 

[mehtab]

Nope, cherokee can't be used for hosting purposes as its not stable and cpanel requires apache and can't be run on cherokee. Though I would recommend admin to install unix (freebsd) to get full performance of apache.

 

[Brandon]

We have CentOS, and the user was asking for it without cPanel, etc, just FTP.

 

[Starshine]

@Starshine - Where's the bulletin board product page?

http://www.netvillage.com/community.asp?frames=useframes

You can request a demo : http://www.gcomm.com/products/download.htm

The system seems to be the same as it was "back in the day" - just updated to now function online. ( Webpages, access from the net *instead of dialing in* )