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The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)
The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Apr 6, 2007 15:04 UTC (Fri) by Nelson (subscriber, #21712)Parent article: The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)
Lighty is kind of neat. It's easier to set up than apache and that can be huge.
One point of correction, wikipedia claims (and here) to run on Apache and doesn't say anything about lighttpd. According to netcraft, youtube also runs apache and not lighttpd. Meebo and A List Apart both run lighttpd though; at least says netcraft.
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The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Apr 6, 2007 15:52 UTC (Fri) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
Such large sites may well run different parts on different servers. E.g. lighttpd may be used for serving static images and such unburdening the main apache servers which run the applications.
The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Apr 6, 2007 21:49 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]
IIRC, the Wikimedia db dump download service runs on lighttpd, at least - but I'm not 100% sure, so don't quote me on that.
The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Apr 7, 2007 9:29 UTC (Sat) by remijnj (subscriber, #5838) [Link]
I think the article took the site names from this page which was linked from the latest netcraft survey page.