From: khaines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-03-09T01:13:34+09:00
Subject: Re: webrick in production use?

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:43:41 +0900, Navindra Umanee wrote
> David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> wrote:
> > There's nothing preventing you from doing that. If WEBrick is fast 
> > enough for your site, then by all means go for it. But if its not fast 
> > enough, you'll need to get on FastCGI.
> 
> Well the site is dot.kde.org, so I need it to be able to withstand a
> Slashdotting.

You _probably_ don't want to use Webrick, then.  I count 8 static images on
that page.  If they are served with webrick, too, your time to service a
complete page request will increase quite a bit, and you will definitely not
be happy when you are slashdotted.


Kirk Haines