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Lighttpd
Posted by kaerast on Thu 19 Apr 2007 at 01:09
- Apache2 - 52Mb
- Lighttpd - 2.5Kb
- Reducing memory usage on a cheap vps - priceless!
I'm in the process of testing lighttpd with all of the sites running on our little vps. So far so good, and it's memory usage is tiny!
Our vps is basicly a Drupal/Mailman server, and so I've documented the installation of the Lighttpd/Drupal stack in case anybody's interested. It's a wiki, so is being edited as I go along finding problems but I'll probably make it into a proper article at some point.
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Posted by Anonymous (122.162.xx.xx) on Thu 19 Apr 2007 at 05:58
Yup - proper tool for the job - sometimes apache is just overkill.
I'm now at the start of a meaningful relationship with Thy.
I'm not too sure how it happened, I think I probably just fell for Thy because of the tag: "thy - The most beautiful http daemon", plus Apache was really far too fat for my tastes. Thy is really quite petite.
Anyway, so me and Thy are just getting started, hanging around doing simple fun stuff together. I'm not sure how committed I can be in the long term, but let's see.
PJ
I'm now at the start of a meaningful relationship with Thy.
I'm not too sure how it happened, I think I probably just fell for Thy because of the tag: "thy - The most beautiful http daemon", plus Apache was really far too fat for my tastes. Thy is really quite petite.
Anyway, so me and Thy are just getting started, hanging around doing simple fun stuff together. I'm not sure how committed I can be in the long term, but let's see.
PJ
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thttpd has had this sales pitch for years - small light and fast! Once upon a time it even had pretty high market share in the UK (for some reason) but it's gradually eroded.
Compare:
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/0704/bydomain/uk/ 3.17%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/0304/bydomain/uk/ 7.16%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/0104/bydomain/uk/ 14.14%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/9904/bydomain/uk/ 17.33%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/9704/bydomain/uk/ 40.35%
It doesn't look like there has been much activity for a while, but it could be that it's perfect... It's been in Debian for ages.
--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
Compare:
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/0704/bydomain/uk/ 3.17%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/0304/bydomain/uk/ 7.16%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/0104/bydomain/uk/ 14.14%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/9904/bydomain/uk/ 17.33%
http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/9704/bydomain/uk/ 40.35%
It doesn't look like there has been much activity for a while, but it could be that it's perfect... It's been in Debian for ages.
--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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