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by raimue 4507 days ago
You could achieve something similar using the simple HTTP server shipped with python: python -m SimpleHTTPServer
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Which will melt with any sort of sustained traffic.
Except, that's not the use case for Spark so it's an apt comparison.

> Emergency web server

> For those occasions when your webserver is down and you want to display a quick maintainance note. Or just want to quickly demo a static site. Or whatever :)

Yes it is. The use case is when your site is down and you want to tell people that. If you have even a small amount of traffic `python -m http.server` is going to die, this isn't.

How is that not an apt comparison?