Multiple Servers Or Just One?

Hi,

I'm involved in developing an application that consists of two
aspects:
(1) Serving of static, compressed HTML pages and images with the logs
being collected for further processing.
(2) PHP-based application for management, which would runs with SSL
and regenerate the static HTML pages once a day to once a week.

Do you think there is any performance advantage to be gained from
using a barebones apache for serving the 'static' pages (no PHP, no
SSL) and a full-featured apache for the other pages?

It has been noted that such a split set-up is advantageous for
mod_perl but I was wonderinf if the same applies to PHP.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.
http://www.afriguru.com

Seun Osewa <afriguru.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
 > Do you think there is any performance advantage to be gained from
 > using a barebones apache for serving the 'static' pages (no PHP, no
 > SSL) and a full-featured apache for the other pages?

There is a clear maintenance disadvantage: you need two server instead
of one. Performance is not sure, you have to test it.

Davide

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