使用Go的HTTP服务器进行生产[关闭]

Question

I'm a PHP developer new to Golang. PHP comes with an inbuilt server which is not recommended for production. I read the beautiful book by astaxie on web development in Go and also the golang.org example on writing a web app. They both use the http.ListenAndServe() to create a web server. I just want to know if this server can be used in production or is it just a dummy server like PHP inbuilt server? By production I mean, can it handle huge traffic like an Apache or ngnix server?

Answer 1

Short answer: YES.

Longer answer: you can certainly use the built in Web server for production traffic. There's a good chance you've used it today, since Google serves some traffic using it. I know a lot of companies, including the one I work for that use it for production traffic. BTW I don't know of a Web server widely used in Go that does not use the standard web server.

Keep in mind though that you need to tweak things like client timeouts to make it really robust, and perhaps limit incoming connections, etc.