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I don't get the threading criticism of Node, php and ruby are single threaded too (except for something like IronRuby which few people use).

The difference is PHP is thread (or, rather, process) per connection. Node is one process handing multiple connections.

Thanks for the clarification.

PHP-FPM is a single process and is built into 5.3, though it requires some configuration.

Cool! Thanks for that... I'll definitely check it out. Looks like there are patches for earlier versions.

I would never use PHP anyway but there you can use the hole server because the webserver does it for you.

Ruby does not? As far as I see JRuby does and is used a lot.

The diffrence really is that Ruby does not claim to be super fast and scale really good.