Cherokee web server

Well, it is time to post the first geek thing. And with this post I want to say I am very happy with the decission I made.

First of all, I have to say THANKS to calocen (http://alocen.com). He is the one bringing me the possibility of using a VPS.

Before this, I configured a few web servers by my own, and of course, installing a basic LAMP stack, with Apache. Well, apache is a small problem when you have a limited resources, so I decided to try other servers. I heard of lighttpd, but also heard it had memory leaks. Then I found nginx, a great server, text-file configuration based but quite easy even for me.

But then I found cherokee, (http://cherokee-project.com) from @queru in a twitter post. I saw some benchmarks comparing nginx and cherokee, and they were similar, and in occasions cherokee won. But what I really liked a lot was the easiness of configuration and also having a web interface for setting that up. SWEET!!

When I say it was easy, I mean REALLY EASY. Believe me. And in the latest version you have the ability to use wizards...

For example, I use drupal (well, why I use it will be another post). How did I install it? Just by pressing button, selecting the folder, entering the domain (http://geek.davebv.com) and there it go!!!

Cherokee documentation is also great. But if there is something I see it lacks is a forum instead of a mailing list. Just my opinion.

Well, if you are in doubt, give it a try!