Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd

[Posted October 19, 2005 by cook]

Julio M. Merino Vidal introduces thttpd on O'Reilly. "The Apache HTTP Server is the most popular web server due to its functionality, stability, and maturity. However, this does not make it suitable for all uses: slow machines and embedded systems may have serious problems running it because of its size. Here is where lightweight HTTP servers come into play, as their low-memory footprints deliver decent results without having to swap data back to disk."