Changing Cherokee for a Smalltalk based web server?

> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting random "504 gateway error" answers from several sites (using
> Zope and Rails) that are served by Cherokee using a reverse proxy setup.
> This error is an open issue in Cherokee and has been reported and not
> properly patched since 2009:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=504
>
> I did choose Cherokee because of its easiness to setup and newbie
> friendly interface and character, but with this problem I'm thinking in
> testing another server, may be a Smalltalk based one that have similar
> characteristics and can serve sites in Zope or Rails also. I know about
> Comanche, Swazoo and Zinc, but I don't know which of them is better
> (making load balance and stuff like that) and have proper documentation
> about using it in combination with other software (Zope and Rails in my
> case).
>
> Any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated,
>
> Offray
>

> Hi Offray,
>
> I'm afraid none of these would suite very well. The usual approach for a webserver in Pharo is to put it behind a Nginx/Apache/etc (as with your Rails or Zope).
>
> I don't know anyone who is using a Pharo server to load balance other applications but I'm maybe wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francois
>
>
>
> On 11/11/11 06:37, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm getting random "504 gateway error" answers from several sites (using
>> Zope and Rails) that are served by Cherokee using a reverse proxy setup.
>> This error is an open issue in Cherokee and has been reported and not
>> properly patched since 2009:
>>
>> https://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=504
>>
>> I did choose Cherokee because of its easiness to setup and newbie
>> friendly interface and character, but with this problem I'm thinking in
>> testing another server, may be a Smalltalk based one that have similar
>> characteristics and can serve sites in Zope or Rails also. I know about
>> Comanche, Swazoo and Zinc, but I don't know which of them is better
>> (making load balance and stuff like that) and have proper documentation
>> about using it in combination with other software (Zope and Rails in my
>> case).
>>
>> Any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Offray
>>
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> On 12 Nov 2011, at 23:44, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> I guess that sven is using pharo to manage multiple servers using a rest like architecture.
>
> I am using multiple Smalltalk server instances/images behind a non-Smalltalk (Apache 2 in my case) load balancer.
>
> Current VMs are single core, so to use the multiple cores on modern machines, this is useful.
>
> Given the amount of memory you get today, you can better use it, and Smalltalk is very efficient compared to say Java.
>
> This kind of setup also allows for a more resilient system since requests can be routed around a crash in a worker.
>
> There exist server tools (like monit) that monitor your workers and restart them automatically when needed.
>
> The challenge is of course to build a system that is either stateless or where the shared state lives efficiently outsite each worker.
>
> Sven
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