[PLUG-Devel] lightweight web servers

[Austin Godber]

Eric Shubert wrote:
> I see from 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_servers that 
> there is quite a selection. Does anyone have a recommendation for a one 
> that is production grade and would simply run configuration pages (php, 
> perhaps ruby), like in an embedded appliance?
>
>   
I have used lighttpd to handle huge amounts of traffic for brief periods 
of time and found it to be decent.  I am a little concerned that 1.5 has 
been in development for about 3 years now.  Similarly cool is nginx 
which is pretty active and fairly widely adopted.  I would probably look 
at nginx if I were to do what you are suggesting.  I think they both 
need (or recommend) fastcgi to support php though, which makes things 
slightly messier.

Austin