lighttpd
February 2nd, 2007
Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.
Web 2.0
lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative webservers.
This fast web server and its development team create a webserver with the needs of the future web in mind:
Its event-driven architecure is optimized for a large number of parallel connections (keep-alive) which is important for high performant AJAX applications.
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February 13th, 2007 at 10:55 AM nice webserver
February 15th, 2007 at 09:27 PM YouTube and wikipedia are using lighttpd? i don't think so
February 16th, 2007 at 12:41 PM They are. Both are using lighttpd to deliver the static content to the clients. Use firebug and check the different servers: for youtube the servers starting with static-*... and for wikipedia the ones with upload.*
February 17th, 2007 at 03:59 PM Wow Medved, way to go to humiliate yourself. Don't act like you know it all when you clearly don't.
February 20th, 2007 at 04:00 PM http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Servers Wikipedia proper is run by Apache with Squids in front. As far as I know there are no Lighttpd servers being used to serve pages. Love your server, by the way. Small, fast, and doesn't break.
February 20th, 2007 at 04:41 PM I have been following lighty for some time and I am very impressed with it. It is in use on one of our development server and doing a great job, especially in benchmarks. It would be interesting to roll it out onto our cluster system. Do you have plans to implement sticky sessions into the load balancer, and if so, when would this be available? This is the last thing standing in the way of lighty replacing apache in my set up. Greets, Gavin
February 20th, 2007 at 07:29 PM Ted, run curl -I against upload.wikimedia.org and against download.wikimedia.org. Both return the Server-header containing lighttpd.
February 26th, 2007 at 02:20 AM @Ted: They mentioned lighttpd in their help desk archive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archive_35#Book_Cover_Image
March 1st, 2007 at 02:09 PM Nice !!!! I´ll download it now ! thank you dac