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"Instead of spawning a new OS thread for each connection (and allocating the accompanying memory with it), each connection creates a process, which doesn't require the memory block to go with it."

"Currently, Node doesn't provide a default way to create dynamic pages."

"Yes, Node is a server program. However, it is definitely not like Apache or Tomcat. Those servers are stand-alone server products, ready to install and deploy applications instantly. You could be up and running with a server in a minute with these products. Node is definitely not this. Apache can add a PHP module to allow developers to create dynamic web pages, and programmers using Tomcat can deploy JSPs to create dynamic web pages. Node is definitely not this."

"Image file server A company that has a large distributed website (think Facebook or Flickr), could decide to devote entire boxes to simply serving up images. Node would be a good solution for this..."

Do I have to write up a full synopsis for you?

"Currently, Node doesn't provide a default way to create dynamic pages."

I don't see one either, am I missing something? http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.7/api/ (I do see one mentioned in "Recommended third-party modules" but that's not "default" or to use probably a better term, batteries-included.)

Node does not seem to be generally pitched as a framework to push out more templated page-oriented PHP-style web pages. Isn't this supposed to be most of the point of Node.js that it's meant for other use cases that are poorly-served by the page-oriented servers and frameworks?

And for that last one, while it is true Node wouldn't be my first choice I have seen sites based on Apache where I could see using Node.js to server images and do something else Node-y. Some common configurations of Apache can be really freaking heavyweight per-request before it even necessarily gets to your code, and using a separate server to serve up static assets is common. True, Node wouldn't be my first choice but I'm not sure it's necessarily a terrible choice.

The first one is true; like I said, it does have errors, and is generally poorly-written. But I think a lot of it is that he's writing from a perspective that you don't share, but not necessarily a wrong perspective.

what is the default way to create dynamic pages? must have missed that!

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