Wouldn't Integrated httpd service be good for large sites ?

[Sharg]

Hi, here is what I was able to read on a web site:


"As an alternative to mod_perl and fastCGI, which not all web servers support or will be installed by an ISP, we include an internally developed httpd server, which operates under the same principle of "persistant" state of the program. The httpd server, once running will listen on a separate "PORT" for search engine requests, and serve search results instantly"

Wouldn't a VB httpd server greatly increase the power of this software ?

Thanks,
Benj

[JimF]

I don't know much about this kind of thing, but I know enough from my little experience working with apache and such to guess that httpd means hyper text transfer protocol deamon, aka - web server. You are basically suggesting, to the best of my knowledge, that somehow a web server be incorporated with vBulletin to increase performance. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The webserver is a totally different animal from vB. That would be like selling the transmission with the seat covers. Sure, it would make the seatcovers better, but as much as they are related, they are equally unrelated. They are totally different areas of technology, IMO - and having them incorporated would make little or no sense, unless the ONLY thing on the server would be vB, which would not happen very often.

If anyone can expand or correct any of what I've just said I'd appreciate it.

-jim

*that'd be one helluva hack*

[The_Net_Muppet]

I think he means for the bulletin board to run as a background process on linux, thus 'a webserver'. It opens socket connections, I am working on a chat that does just this..... it is in C

[JimF]

Okay, that would make more sense. Thanks for the clarification.

-jim

[Sharg]

Yes i'm talking about this because the big board that are supposed to be for "enterprise" and very high traffic (o'relley and Ichat) are running using this method.

When you access their board you go to an url like http://www.theboard.com:8080 and I was wandering what would be the benefit of such a way of running.

Benj