… problem is slow clients which need to be spoon feed. This is especially the problem for large pages and files but with bad/slow…. Use Reverse proxy in front. You may configure other Apache server to use as reverse proxy, you may also use Squid, Lighttpd, Nginx… services by reverse proxy servers could be enough. The note about LigHTTPD – I like this one in particular because it is really easy…
Post: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 22, 2007 By 12 Comments
… the problem. As it turned out the systems were slowing down because lighttpd process grew to a few gigabytes eating the entire… even though Apache and PHP handled it without much hassle, Lighttpd kept allocating memory to fit the entire response into the… case, it is easy to imagine the situation where the problems will appear with much smaller data being sent through Lighttpd proxy. For…
