[wplug] Alternative web servers

[Brian A. Seklecki]

http://www.lighttpd.net/

"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."


~~BAS

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Zach wrote:

> On 2/23/07, Shane Liesegang <shane at shaneliesegang.com> wrote:
>> Does anybody on the list have experience with non-Apache web servers on
>> Linux? I've been reading a bit about lighttpd and Cherokee, but it's hard 
>> to
>> separate the hype from reality. Specifically, I'm looking for real-world
>> performance metrics with dynamic pages, mostly PHP. The majority of
>> benchmarks I've seen focus on static content, which isn't a huge help,
>> sadly.
>
> General overview of features:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_servers
>
> Zeus biased but gives some comparisons:
> http://www.zeus.com/news/pdf/white_papers/zws_comparison.pdf
> http://www.zeus.com/news/pdf/white_papers/SPECweb99.pdf
>
> Here's something else to consider (kernel):
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/
>
> Some nice tools you can run against different web servers:
> http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
> http://www.spec.org/web2005/
>
> General howto on web server benchmarking:
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-performance-benchmarks-a-web-server.html
>
> Zach
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