Other (non-trivial) webservers

Posted Sep 8, 2005 9:10 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Why 'upgrade'? by NightMonkey
Parent article: Upgrading to Apache 2 (Linux.com)

"Feature-complete" is the tough part of course. But Caudium should fit the bill. It is written in Pike which is a more C-like Python, but performance is still comparable to Apache. It has been used for some very large installations but has been declining in popularity for some reason. Both design and security is really good.

I've also had luck with lighttpd which is written in C, very fast, and uses a module system much like Apache's. Not as many features as the others perhaps but very straightforward design and easy to configure. Has had a security problem once which is always is a bad sign, but has been ok since then.