starman

I've been doing web-programming for a while now and am quite familiar with the LAMP stack. I've decided to try playing around with the nginx/starman/dancer stack and I'm a bit confused about how to understand, from a high-level, how all the pieces relate to each other. Setting up the stack doesn't seem as straight forward as setting up the LAMP stack, but that's probably because I don't really understand how the pieces relate. I understand the role nginx is playing - a lightweight webserver/proxy - but I'm confused about how starman relates to pgsi, plack and dancer. I would appreciate a high

I am trying to deploy my little Catalyst web app using Plack/Starman. All the documentation seems to suggest I want to use this in combination with nginx. What are the benefits of this? Why not use Starman straight up on port 80? It doesn't have to be nginx in particular, but you want some kind of frontend server proxying to your application server for a few reasons: So that you can run the Catalyst server on a high port, as an ordinary user, while running the frontend server on port 80. To serve static files (ordinary resources like images, JS, and CSS, as well as any sort of downloads you