What alternatives to apache?

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I've seen some suggestions for thttpd or litehttpd, anyone got experience? Basically I need something a little more lightweight and faster than apache.
 


For serving a lot of static content from a single processor machine, few apps beat LightTPD. This web server is designed to have very low resource requirements and to be fast. It can generally handle about twice as many requests as Apache for static content. For dynamic content, it supports CGI and FastCGI. FastCGI eliminates the process creation and destruction overhead of CGI by allowing a single process to handle all requests for a CGI script. The FastCGI interface is supported by PHP, allowing LightTPD to serve PHP pages at least as well as Apache.
When scalability is king, Yaws (Yet Another Web Server) is often a good choice. It’s written in Erlang, a language designed for concurrency, and scales very well. The entire system is designed as a number of concurrent processes, allowing for very high throughput.

Got that, from http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&seqNum=2&rl=1
 
I've heard good things about LightTPD. It's more for static pages I believe.
 
Dave said:
For serving a lot of static content from a single processor machine, few apps beat LightTPD. This web server is designed to have very low resource requirements and to be fast. It can generally handle about twice as many requests as Apache for static content. For dynamic content, it supports CGI and FastCGI. FastCGI eliminates the process creation and destruction overhead of CGI by allowing a single process to handle all requests for a CGI script. The FastCGI interface is supported by PHP, allowing LightTPD to serve PHP pages at least as well as Apache.
When scalability is king, Yaws (Yet Another Web Server) is often a good choice. It’s written in Erlang, a language designed for concurrency, and scales very well. The entire system is designed as a number of concurrent processes, allowing for very high throughput.

Got that, from http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&seqNum=2&rl=1
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up until I read that last sentence I was going to say "Great post Dave"

I've seen litehttpd in use and if you're serving basic static content then it's a good alternative to Apache.
 
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