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Originally Posted by Big John
Argh - there ya go. The reason for posting as finding info comparing advantages/disadvantages isn't as easy as I thought it'd be.
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It really depends on what you're doing with it. If you're using Apache to serve static pages and images, you're not using it for what it should be used for - managing/serving the dynamic content (there are smaller, thriftier systems that can do the static shit with ease, like thttpd, or lighttpd - both excel leaps and bounds with sendfile() kernel support).
My suggestion to you is to setup both; put one on the standard port 80, put the other one, oh, say, 8080 and use Apache's 'ab', or a comparable traffic tool to see how each performs for you.
Keep in mind that the Apache 1.3 core is nearly 10 years old; it doesn't natively have a lot of the support that 2.x does, but the things that are written for it have generally been tried and tested for many, many years - so again, it's an issue of stability. For most uses, 2.x is perfectly fine.
.. and, if you build mod_macro into 1.3, you can almost transparently switch between the two with a little bit of perl or awk-fu.
('sup Hans!)