Hi, I am setting up a new server and would like to find an alternative to Apache. I would like to find something that uses less RAM, as Apache can run up to 15 MB on my machine. The three options I have selected include: Lighhtpd Nginx LiteSpeed I couldn't tell if Lighhtpd was RAM intensive but it was proprietary, so I don't think I'll use it. If you could please suggest the best of these options or even different option, I would be very grateful. Thanks very much.
Hi, lighttpd is Open Source under the BSD license. It's generally considered a lightweight apache alternative for serving static content. Nginx is under a BSD variant license. LiteSpeed is proprietary. What type of content are you hosting? if it's non-dynamic I'd highly recommend lighttpd. If it's dynamic content I'd work on tuning apache. By the way 15mb is quite small for apache.
Thanks, I will only be running PHP and Python applications for a while, so I thought I could cut down. I am not currently able to tweak my Apache setting but I can compile and upload my own, so I was looking for something that could really run efficiently because I pay by the megabyte of RAM.