Alternative web servers compared: Lighttpd, Nginx, LiteSpeed and Zeus

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lighttpd

The huge leap for Lighttpd in January-March of 2007 is most likely due to one or more web hosting or domain registration companies switching over to Lighttpd either for their regular pages, or for parked pages, or both. If anyone knows what happened there in more detail, please feel free to let us know in the comments.

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nginx

Yours was the first article that made me aware of nginx. I have read more since and since our Apache HTTPD based web servers were being overloaded, I had two options – either to load balance between multiple (obviously dedicated) servers or use Nginx. I have started to move my websites to nginx and I owe you a thanks for it 🙂

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LiteSpeed Web Server

Brief info: LiteSpeed is a commercial web server designed specifically for large websites. One of LiteSpeed’s advantages is that it can read Apache configurations directly which makes it easy to integrate with existing products to replace Apache. The server is lightweight and as the name implies very fast.

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Interestingly, the number of servers using the Zeus web server has remained quite constant over the last two years, and even decreased a little. That said, it is mainly an enterprise solution, so this is perhaps not so surprising.