[Zope] fastcgi unix domain sockets or tcp

Anthony Baxter anthonybaxter at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 05:02:06 EDT 2004


On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:57:46 -0700, David Bear <david.bear at asu.edu> wrote:
> can anyone tell me why I should use a unix domain socket instead of a
> tcp socket on localhst for fastcgi?

The advantage of the tcp approach is that you can put a loadbalancer
(e.g. pythondirector or pound) between your apache and your zope,
giving you fail-over and load balancing.

In theory you could write a load balancer that worked on a unix domain
socket and read fastcgi requests, but I'm not aware of any that are
already out there for this.

Anthony


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