Comments on: The Web Server Is Dead: Long Live The Application Server http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/07/the-web-server-is-dead-long-live-the-application-server/ Server Load Balancing Articles and News Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:24:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Information Infrastructure Design http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/07/the-web-server-is-dead-long-live-the-application-server/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Information Infrastructure Design Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:29:55 +0000 http://lbdigest.com/?p=148#comment-980 Hi Tony, I read your book a few years ago - I found it very good. When I first readd this I thought - hang on a minute, but then realised your trin of thought. VG, by your definition almost all web servers are indeed application servers. cheers Tony Murphy Hi Tony,

I read your book a few years ago – I found it very good.

When I first readd this I thought – hang on a minute, but then realised your trin of thought. VG, by your definition almost all web servers are indeed application servers.

cheers
Tony Murphy

]]> By: Mitch http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/07/the-web-server-is-dead-long-live-the-application-server/comment-page-1/#comment-976 Mitch Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:56:37 +0000 http://lbdigest.com/?p=148#comment-976 We use resin as our app server and it's a memory hog. Thus we spread this out over many servers on our tier 2 and retain a traditional tier 1 apache farm. An LB divvies the load across the web servers and the web servers divvy the load across application servers in a many-to-many relationship. We use resin as our app server and it’s a memory hog. Thus we spread this out over many servers on our tier 2 and retain a traditional tier 1 apache farm. An LB divvies the load across the web servers and the web servers divvy the load across application servers in a many-to-many relationship.

]]> By: Lori MacVittie http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/07/the-web-server-is-dead-long-live-the-application-server/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Lori MacVittie Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:49:52 +0000 http://lbdigest.com/?p=148#comment-974 Tony, Great point. I think we could sum it all up as "All web servers (today) are application servers, but not all application servers are web servers" primarily because while web servers can be app servers via PHP, ASP, etc... app servers can't always easily serve up simple images/static HTML. It's all done via applications, which is much more complex than need be in the case of images/static content. But with PHP, ASP, RoR, we could be seeing the beginnings of the end of complex, heavy application servers as lightweight languages take over web application development, even inside the enterprise (a la JSP, .NET). Lori Tony,

Great point. I think we could sum it all up as “All web servers (today) are application servers, but not all application servers are web servers” primarily because while web servers can be app servers via PHP, ASP, etc… app servers can’t always easily serve up simple images/static HTML. It’s all done via applications, which is much more complex than need be in the case of images/static content.

But with PHP, ASP, RoR, we could be seeing the beginnings of the end of complex, heavy application servers as lightweight languages take over web application development, even inside the enterprise (a la JSP, .NET).

Lori

]]> By: Martin http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/07/the-web-server-is-dead-long-live-the-application-server/comment-page-1/#comment-973 Martin Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:15:32 +0000 http://lbdigest.com/?p=148#comment-973 What about all the web servers out there serving static content such as images? Remove them and the web will look like 1994 called to get HTML back :) What about all the web servers out there serving static content such as images? Remove them and the web will look like 1994 called to get HTML back :)

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