Website Rob
05-30-2002, 02:11 AM
Reading an article about Apache 2.0 and it's new implementation of User and Group per Virtual Host (http://apache.covalent.net/articles/about/user_and_group_per_virt_host.php) without having to use "suexe" as Apache 1.3 does. It all started to sound so good until I got to the very last paragraph.
This will never be the fastest MPM, because it relies on passing socket descriptors between processes, which is inherently a slow process. It would be much faster to give the server multiple IP addresses, and have different Apache installations listen to port 80 on different IPs. However, that can get very difficult to administer.
Which makes it sound like a trade-off of speed for security.
Anyone using or familiar with Apache 2.0? Looking for some first-hand experience in general and whether 2.0 is everything it's cracked up to be.
This will never be the fastest MPM, because it relies on passing socket descriptors between processes, which is inherently a slow process. It would be much faster to give the server multiple IP addresses, and have different Apache installations listen to port 80 on different IPs. However, that can get very difficult to administer.
Which makes it sound like a trade-off of speed for security.
Anyone using or familiar with Apache 2.0? Looking for some first-hand experience in general and whether 2.0 is everything it's cracked up to be.