[Xitami] Status of Xitami ??

[Craig Morrison]

Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> Hello, we are here.  Busy, but here.

As are some of your long time followers. :-)

> 
> Xitami is, obviously, a project that is fairly static.  We make patches now 
> and then, especially when there are security issues.  The server solves a 
> problem for many people but we cannot compete with the huge resources put 
> behind products like Apache, and we would be foolish to try.

Those of us that use and know Xitami on a daily basis don't expect it to 
be an Apache. We appreciate it for what it is. A lean, mean, web-serving 
machine.

> 
> In 2000-01 or so, we were forced to concentrate on earning money: this was 
> banal and much less satisfying than making Xitami better but the few licenses 
> we sold for Xitami/Pro did not start to cover even our network costs, let 
> alone work on the product.

I paid my change for Xitami. Its capable of doing a lot, should one have 
the desire to put some of their own effort into it.

I also can sympathize with your team as a developer myself.

> 
> I've been asked by members of our team to "officially declare Xitami dead" 
> several times.  I've resisted.  We use the software ourselves.  We use it on 

Please keep resisting.

> protocol handlers, a fully portable server.  Today Apache 2 is a fast, 
> portable server and seriously: you should be using Apache 2 instead of Xitami 
> unless there are specific things Xitami does better for you.

This I take issue with.

Apache does not run "out of the box". Xitami does.

Apache is a horrid mess (no offense Apache folks) of configuration 
options, files, etc. Xitami has a clean and (most importantly) easy 
configuration that most can figure out just by looking at it.

> 
> But... Xitami as a living product... it's clearly something who's time has 
> come and gone.  The need for a small, fast, portable web server was painfully 
> obvious in 1997-2000, and we are proud to have achieved what we did.  But 
> today it's a niche product.

It is a living product, whether the powers that be want it to be or not. :-D

> 
> We will continue to provide updates of Xitami, we will continue to publish the 
> source code.  Other people may spend the time building binaries and nice 
> installers - this is no longer our job.

We have the parts to fix it if need be.

> 
> I hope this is a satisfactory answer.
> 
> On behalf of the Xitami team, which has included myself, Ewen McNeill, 
> Jonathan Schultz, Julie Pesesse, and numerous other people in various roles 
> over the years, I'd like to thank our users, friends and contributers for 

Good luck in your future endeavors. Just keep us posted. ;-)

I have used Xitami for going on 5 years now and have NO intention of 
switching to apache or any other web-server. I have invested too much 
time and effort in writing the scripts and support mechanisms to do what 
I need to do on a daily basis with Xitami to go elsewhere..

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Craig Morrison
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