Anyone else use Lighttpd?

I was just wondering. I use it for sites that sit on a VPS. If you've never heard of it you should check it out. It's a lot faster (and easier to set up ) than Apache.

http://www.lighttpd.net/

 

LxAdmin is the only CP that natively suports lightly as of now. Good for low end systems.

 

It works very well as a proxy for static content with Apache 2.2 as the frontend.

 

Yeah, that's a problem for those who wan't to offer web hosting. Which I don't despite my username.

There's just one .conf file though so I find it easy to just do the vHosts through that, along with other odds and ends.

I found this site, which is full of good starters if anyone is interested.


http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/category/lighttpd

 

Yeah, cyberciti site is one I visit often...run by a fellow Indian I think.

 

Lighttpd is nice alternative to Apache, though I prefer to use Nginx with some of my sites. It has an even smaller footprint and a better trackrecord when it comes to bugs.

I'm using it with CherryPy for my proxy list site and a few other directories.

 

Yea...simpler and alternative web servers are getting popular but are yet to match up with features needed for mainstream and widely available apps (eg - mod_rewrite with universal syntax like apache)

 

You can use the Lighty rewrite with Wordpress, but I havn't tried it beyond that. If they made a CPanel light version for it we could be onto a winner, they should make Cpanel lite anyway, it's really bloated, but actually the best CP again since the x3 skin IMO.

On another note I got a VPS from http://joyent.com, I have it free for a year (worth $750 ) but they run Solaris 8 core + servers so I think the only thing I can use is Webmin :/

 

LiteSpeed does, although it's a paid software.

 

And no matter how much litespeed is good, it's overpriced. (and that too based on no. of cpu cores!)

 

I've just been given a vps (free for a year! )based on Solaris. Sadly I can't log in as in root and put in lighty but I can sudo, not sure if that will be much use though. Is this a commion problem with Solaris set ups? I'm thinking of switching just to solaris and i'd like to use lighty.

 

If you have sudo, can you type "sudo bash" ? Can you type "sudo -s" ? Either one will give you a root shell. If those don't work, it will mean that you only have a limited set of commands you are allowed to run as root.

I have actually used Lighttpd on Solaris 8. It ran PHP in CGI mode with all the added server variables to make it look like it was running as an Apache module. It was blazingly fast but none of the sites on that server had enough traffic to give it a proper workout.

Lighttpd is popular enough now that NetCraft have moved it out of the "other" category and given it a line of it's own in their webserver statistics.

There's a good write-up of benchmarking Lighttpd vs Apache on DigitalBadger.net.

 

I still havn't had time to test it out. On the VPS I got free they have Webmin installed. I think it might control the dedi so I doubt I can remove it. TBH, i'm not going to 'share' it so I'd rather they didn't bother, i'm just as happy using .conf files and terminal to set up my servers, CP's seem like a waste of resources if i'm the end user, plus they're always possible security holes IMO.

If it's just for me, I don't even install FTP or mail, I use Gmail Apps for email and just use SFTP via WinSCP.