[Xitami] Status of Xitami ??

[Ron Ackerman]

I think a lot of people don't realize Xitami is Open Source. Why not put it
on sourceforge.net, and really get it open for more development. Actually I
see an entry for Xitami on SourceForge here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/imatix-xitami/ but it doesn't seem to be all
that active.

I am pretty happy with the way my Xitami install is running on my Win2K pro.
It just chuggs right along, except I don't use the FTP portion. I have been
contemplating making the jump to Xitami Pro. My one complaint is that it
doesn't do ASP. I have it set up for PHP, Perl, and Cold Fusion but have
been asked for ASP.

I have dealt with IIS and Linux in the past, but I really like Xitami for
ease in maintainance and setting up new domains.

Ron



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From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
[mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Craig Morrison
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:52 AM
To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Status of Xitami ??


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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