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4.0
IT Infrastructure, Application Server

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Description of Lighttpd

Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.

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Revainrating 4 out of 5

The fastest Web Server without any problems

It is fast, it is open source, it allows to do many things. I have never seen another web server that I like better than lighttpd. I do not like it when it is slow - it is very important for me. I'm looking for a web server that I can easily put on a single machine, on the server (as a reverse proxy). I have to work with the website, which is not as popular as PHP. I am looking for a fast web server that will help me to reduce the load for the website that I work with. It is the most suitable…

Pros
  • Very good security
  • Fast
  • Open source codebase available under BSD license
Cons
  • Not having GUI frontend.
  • Difficulty installing

Revainrating 4 out of 5

One web server which does almost anything

This webserver is very easy to set up with nginx or apache but I prefer it because of its flexibility. It can handle multiple protocols like HTTP/2, SPDY etc at once. The documentation could be more detailed on some points and also there are not many tutorials out in the wild that cover this specific webserver. So far no problems as such and all features work according to what you configure them as. Maybe add support for TLS 1.3? We have a lot of websites running heavy content (video) so we…

Pros
  • It is a webserver that you can configure for many protocols at once
Cons
  • I have to set up some features (such as fastcgi) with a lot of work