Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 33058 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2006 17:57:25 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Jun 2006 17:57:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 5973 invoked by uid 500); 1 Jun 2006 17:57:11 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 5946 invoked by uid 500); 1 Jun 2006 17:57:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@tomcat.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list users@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 5933 invoked by uid 99); 1 Jun 2006 17:57:10 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:57:10 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: local policy) Received: from [217.110.29.211] (HELO ns2.tngtech.com) (217.110.29.211) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:57:08 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p549B016C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.155.1.108]) by ns2.tngtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A33340D1 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:56:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <447F2A5C.7080009@tngtech.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:56:44 +0200 From: Michael Echerer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat as a standalone webserver. Why not? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Danny Lee wrote: > Hi guys! > > I wondering if it's really so good to use Tomcat behind "a real" web > server like Apache or IIS. > In case you have a lot of HTTPS traffic, you'll find that having Apache handle SSL is faster than the Java implementation that Tomcat can offer. IMHO for HTTP traffic performance is "almost" comparable as long as you don't need 100% perf, but for HTTPS Apache is definitely better already with not so many concurrent requests. Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tomcat.apache.org