Hi Im trying to speed things up on my website and was wondering if i should move away from apache and install something else. My website is a music upload and download site. I transfer a few hundred gigs a day of data so i think another webserver may help speed things up. What would your suggestions be? Thanks Beat
ok ill look into these, thanks so if i moved from apache to, say, lighthttpd would i see a significant increase in performance? Im looking for something that can handle multiple file quest simultaneously easily as this is when performance starts to suffer
ye i know i can use apache as im currently using it. i got told that there are better webserver app's that handle downloading of files better than apache. and as seeing my site is mostly music downloads i thought i should look into it. So apache with some tweaks or lighthttpd, nginx etc ??
Lighthttpd is better at handling static files, so I would move to that if your applications can run on it.
Lighthttpd since it's not as large, etc. as Apache. Apache is great but in layman's terms it's industrial. It's like using a shop vac in your living room. Unnecessary and sometimes can get in the way when you're not using it for standard web purposes. So file sharing or something like that, definitely go with something light Regards, Dennis M.
why not get yourself a litespeed? it is faster than lighthttpd which makes it definitely faster than apache
superjared.com/entry/benching-lighttpd-vs-nginx-static-files/ Nginx seems to do better with larger files, while lighttpd outperforms it with smaller files. Either way, it will probably be an improvement over Apache for just serving static content. You probably wouldn't see see a benefit when using litespeed unless you were serving a lot of dynamic content. But, it is faster than Apache for almost everything.
lighthttpd is good, but apache has always worked for me in high bandwidth situations your web server doesnt really matter if your bandwidth is set at a certain amount.