I've been a Roxen user since it was Spinner yet - basically from
around 1996 or '97, I think.
At that time I was fascinated, and still am - with the design -
modularization, extensibility, writing your own tags - it seemed Roxen
was ahead of the others by quite a margin then.
It still might be, actually. And I think it is a good web server -
comfy to use, nice to administer, powerful API, rich set of modules,
extensible.
However, I have now switched to Apache/PHP as of last week on my last Roxen box.
Simply, because I am a -user-. A power user maybe, but still somebody
who needs software to do things for him with minimum hassle, not a
tinkerer to spend his time doing things to the software.
Roxen is not on any of the 2 major Linux distros I use (SuSE /
RedHat). Which means - among other things - that there are cases, when
it won't work "out of the box". I have had it happen 2-3 times during
operating system & hardware upgrades. Usually I have been able to
solve things - thanks to the people in the Roxen community here, who
have been quite helpful - however, the last time it happened (upgraded
from 32bit to 64bit OS) - I considered, how much time I spend fixing
problems in what to me look like trivial situations - getting Roxen to
compile, getting PHP to work with it, fixing wierd bugs and hangups
(eg. look at some mailinglist archive questions from me ;) ).
Since the time is way too much, I have thus opted to use Apache. I
have worked 5 years in a place, where I could tinker with Roxen to my
heart's content. Now I am administering a bunch of websites, which
need to be up and running at most a day after upgrade.
So, farewell, have fun and good luck.
Emils
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