Talk:Comparison of web server software

message: * The McPherran web engine is a web server software package that runs on Microsoft Windows(R) Server. (https://www.websofthost.com)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coder1024 (talk • contribs) 05:49, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing

message: This article needs cleaning.  Most of the entries are missing information, and several of them consist merely of a red link and a platform.  References for the feature tables may exist, but are not cited, which makes fact-checking difficult.  The choice of features compared seem somewhat arbitrary; why were these features compared but not others?  —donhalcon╤ 21:06, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, WP:POINT (see Special:Contributions/Donhalcon).  —Fleminra 23:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:AGF.  Too many people who don't are precisely the reason I'm leaving.  —donhalcon╤ 18:38, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I told you that nominating all these articles for deletion without engaging editors in discussion was the wrong approach. It was obviously bound to upset a lot of people. It's a bit late to trot out WP:AGF. -- JJay 18:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup needed

message: In the tables, what means an empty cell ? What is the difference with a cell with "No" ? This should be explained in the article. Lvr 15:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It just means that someone with insight needs to provide information. :-) Warrens 16:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empty cells 

message: Is this the place to compare products including prices ? For me it seems strange.. Maybe better to move this Comparison of web servers to another kind of website??
:I dare say wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia. It contains countless articles such as this one. I see this only as a good thing for the reader as long as they are factual and maintain a neutral point of view. xlynx 06:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparisson on an encyclopedia?? 

message: WASD isn't WASD, its WASD.  I'm not sure how this should be disambiguated, but if you make a stub it'll get picked up by the server's users as they've recently been discussing the entries for WASD on this article. --Brianmc 13:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone has confused WASD with WSAD. WASD is a web server, the acronym (IIRC) is Wide Area Survellence Division, a former name of where the author Mark Daniel works. --Brian McNeil /talk 09:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WASD 

message: I changed '?' to 'Yes' for Windows support of thttpd, because it compiles and runs just as easily under cygwin as it does under linux. 
I assume cygwin is counted as Windows because next to lighttpd it says Yes for Windows support when that too relies on cygwin.
However, perhaps it should be specified whether the software is native to Windows or requires cygwin. I don't imagine it would need another column, it could just read 'Yes, via cygwin'. xlynx 06:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed the entry for Hiawatha does just this, but I didn't want to start changing the others because that would imply to the reader than the ones not mentioning cygwin are native, and that's misleading. ie if we're to start changing them, it may be appropriate to audit all entries at the same time. xlynx 06:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cygwin counted as Windows? 

message: Yaws should be able to run anywhere Erlang runs. And that includes as many systems as there are listed on the page
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thread_title:  Yaws on other platforms 

message: Why not include PHP in the Features table, and have an answer being either a red no, or a green number ?
Doublehp 15:51, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is PHP not listed ? 

message: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.251.92.82 (talk) 13:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Klone not listed ? 

message: I can see that User:Jeltz has added version numbers to the overview table; however, I think they're out of place because they have zero comparative value and they will get out of date very quickly. Release dates perhaps do convey some information, but I'm not convinced that's very useful either. What does everyone else think? -- intgr [talk] 02:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version numbers 

message: We've got quite a few web servers on this list. What are the criteria for inclusion? zWebServer was added to the list by the developer, and the name receives only 96 results in google. I was about to just remove it myself but figured I might insult the blameless developer, which I don't mean to do, so can someone confirm what qualifies as notability for a webserver? Thanks. Dynamic1 (talk) 20:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove zWebServer? 

message: An important feature of httpd servers is the concurrency model, e.g. fork, prefork, thread, select, etc. It has an enormous impact on performance, flexibility, and load behavior and is often a key property when selecting a piece of software.
What about adding the concurrency model to the feature matrix?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.219.195.226 (talk) 12:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature: Concurrency model 

message: Why isn't there any data about the Google Web Servers (GWS)?
:My guess is that it's because there's very little information about it, since it only runs on Google-owned servers.
:On that note, does anyone wanna slap GWS on here? It is the fourth most populous web server by market share according to the most recent Netcraft survey, after all. :D
:–– amanisdude (talk) 12:30, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, done! I added GWS to this thing, but it's limited to the Overview list, since I have no reference on its characteristics. Nevertheless, some of its capabilities may be deducible based on its known client-side output behavior. If anyone has any relevant information, please add it to the subsequent tables. Thanks! :D –– amanisdude (talk) 12:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Web Server 

message: I see that we have a lot of red links and ext links on the entries. I think these should be purged. Any objections? --DanielRigal (talk) 23:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Object to removing redlinks.  Why?  Can't track via Special:WantedPages without them.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with redlinks. ⇔ ChristTrekker 21:41, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links and ext links 

message: It appears the AOL server is now using nginx.
Connected to www.aolserver.com:80
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  From: noloader@gmail.com
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Response Header:
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: nginx/0.6.31
  Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:47:23 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  Connection: keep-alive
  X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
  X-Pingback: http://aolserver.sourceforge.net/wp/xmlrpc.php
  Cache-Control: max-age=172800
  Expires: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:47:21 GMT
141.157.17.52 (talk) 17:51, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  AOLServer is a Charlatan? 

message: Connected to www.zues.com:80
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141.157.17.52 (talk) 18:50, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zues is a Charlatan? 

message: What's the standard for inclusion here rather than comparison of lightweight web servers? ⇔ ChristTrekker 21:46, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  standard for inclusion 

message: Hi,
Is possible to put a column for knowing if the web server is based on thread, event-driven (like lighttpd and nginx) or it's single-process (no threads). Perhaps in the second table. Thanks, Xan.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xan2 (talk • contribs) 13:14, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  threads vs event-driven (asynchronous) 

message: I haven't found anything about an Apache administration console.
I'm pretty sure that component comes as a module or a 3rd party software...
Can someone confirm or otherwise point me to a good source? Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.232.228.92 (talk) 15:08, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apache administration console? 

message: Sorry, but does this table have any other purpose than promoting Open-Source?
Why are there TWO columns that contain almost equivalent information ("Open-Source?" and "License"), and why do both make manipulative use of colors to "denounce" the "non-free" (red/purple) products?
This is ridiculous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.196.68 (talk) 02:02, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fix it then?  Takes only a few minutes in "notepad" to do a find/replace and remove that pollitically incorrect colorizing.  Maybe choose light blue for corporate, and pale yellow for open-source perhaps?  120.151.160.158 (talk) 09:48, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased on open-sourceishness 

message: I think that it would be a good idea 82.160.29.71 (talk) 09:58, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add SCGI to features 

message: While this list is kind of nice (except for the usual rabble who remove everyting they hate, or developers who delete mention of whatever they don't want to compete with) - it's pretty much pointless.
There's more than 1 of everything that does what we want, and nothing useful to distinguish any of them.  
Where are the performance numbers :-)  120.151.160.158 (talk) 09:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless without benchmarks 

message: I propose we merge comparison of lightweight web servers into this article. The former is a subset of this comparison article, and the content in that article duplicates information here. The source article also has a POV title, as it includes the term lightweight, which it only defines as "small resource overhead". I think any information regarding such lightweight web server software could be easily covered in this article. Mindmatrix 18:51, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree--any specific categorization such as "lightweight" could be done within the list (if needed at all). 50.53.15.59 (talk) 14:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

text: Agree: The other article is just the same thing - only not as detailed. You can make the lightweight ones another color to indicate them. Timothy G. from CA (talk) 00:13, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge similar article

message: Is it anyone's opinion here that Roxen constitutes a notable web server? It was forked to create Caudium after all, which is included on the list. Please discuss and add if deemed noteworthy.–– amanisdude (talk) 13:23, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Roxen (web server)|Roxen]] 

message: Would it be appropriate to add a column titled (and linked) "WebSocket"? 
Technically, WebSocket is a network protocol. But its main raison d'être is to facilitate a new generation of highly-interactive dynamic content. As such, it is a key feature to consider when comparing web servers.
As adding a column to that table would complicated work, I thought it best to ask first.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basil.bourque (talk • contribs) 02:11, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add "WebSocket" as a column under "Dynamic Content"? 

message: The Python programming language by default installs a module that allows serving of a directory's contents (with the command "python -m http.server" or "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"). 
I don't think it is worth including it in the list, but I think it is worth mentioning. 50.190.60.105 (talk) 02:15, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Python