The April, 2007 Netcraft Web Server Survey

The April, 2007 Netcraft Web Server Survey

Posted Apr 4, 2007 11:09 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: The April, 2007 Netcraft Web Server Survey by njs
Parent article: The April, 2007 Netcraft Web Server Survey

In any benchmarks I've seen, even with FastCGI and SCGI, Apache has always been able to scale quite a bit higher with it's *mods then lighttpd with SCGI or whatever.

But usually it's artificial benchmarks designed to stress the system as hard as possible with a script generating 'hello world' or something like that.

So it's pointless for real life were you'd have your database or bandwidth limiting you.

I think the way it seems right now is that if you want something that is small were memory usage is important or something like that (say with a virtual private server) then lighttpd + fastcgi/scgi is what you'd want to use.

If you want to have something that is portable and fast with minimal dependancies and easier configurations then lighttpd is good also.

But if you want something to scale to the upper end of things then Apache with *mods is generally the way to go. Not always, of course. Just generally.

There are a lot of projects that make websites for home users or specific business stuff. Like configuration interfaces for firewalls, print/file servers, or stuff like bittorrent clients or corporate intranet forums. I think for that then lighttpd is a boon. Apache is just too huge of a hammer for such small nails.

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