Which www daemon do you use, and why?

cactus · 2005-04-12 03:49:20

I currently use apache, but have been looking into lighttpd lately. I have read some very good things about its performance.

What www daemon do you use?
Why do you use it?

iphitus · 2005-04-12 06:54:26

I use thttpd.

why? because its dead simple and just works once you have it installed

Atm, ive got it running SSL+PHP on my server, https://iphitus.no-ip.org

I'll complete my pkgbuild and upload it.

iphitus

cactus · 2005-04-12 07:04:56

I was thinking about giving lighttpd a try, since it seems to be popular with both ruby and php programmers alike, but I have found little information on lighttpd with svn (ala webdav), so that is a sticky point right now. Apache works very well with svn/webdav.

shadov · 2005-04-17 20:06:31

Apache. It works for me, documentation is easy to find and it's popular in corporate environmet, so knowing it might help me find a job in the future.

dp · 2005-04-17 20:24:54

iphitus wrote:

I use thttpd.
why? because its dead simple and just works once you have it installed
Atm, ive got it running SSL+PHP on my server, https://iphitus.no-ip.org
I'll complete my pkgbuild and upload it.

iphitus

thttpd is in extra

Stinky · 2005-04-18 03:31:04

I use apache. Simple. Straightforward. The apache.conf file is well commented and easy to configure. And it's fast.

iphitus · 2005-04-18 12:50:07

dp wrote:

iphitus wrote:
I use thttpd.
why? because its dead simple and just works once you have it installed
Atm, ive got it running SSL+PHP on my server, https://iphitus.no-ip.org
I'll complete my pkgbuild and upload it.

iphitus
thttpd is in extra

Doesnt have php.

shadowhand · 2005-04-18 17:08:03

I've never really considered using anything other than Apache because I have been struggling with it for almost 3 years, so I know most of it's in's and out's now. I use it with PHP and MySQL for web development.

phrakture · 2005-04-18 17:27:07

I use thttpd mainly because I just use my home server to serve out files... so pacman -S thttpd && /etc/rc.d/thttpd start works great - no configuration needed, just toss files in /user/www/data

Moo-Crumpus · 2005-04-18 17:42:14

Apache. Used to read Karl May in my youth.

d3c3it · 2005-04-22 09:44:42

apache, as its a way to shoe horn oss into a windows env and show off the benifits of oss in a corp env (my boss is very pleased with apache/mysql/php esp the speed compared to iis)

phrakture · 2005-04-22 17:31:53

hmm - some older benchmarks I found:
http://www.litespeedtech.com/benchmark.html

I may have to check out lighttpd...

lucke · 2005-04-22 18:20:50

I'm not a httpd guru (read: I don't need any special features), but as for now I use lighttpd as my small web server. It's pretty simple, yet robust. Configuration is a breeze, everything's in one place, documentation covers all the important things in a nice manner. Moreover, benchmarks show it to be more efficient than apache, although it doesn't concern me that much ;-)

Apache is obviously a good piece of software, but with robustness comes the complicity. Like not even being sure what's the compress module for apache2 (*points at cactus*) ;-)

I've tried lighttpd solely for fun and, well, managed to set up some things I wouldn't even bother to set with apache (i.e. I wouldn't bother to browse all those modules docs, seeking the right thing).

cactus · 2005-04-22 19:01:59

My initial findings and some info. I think lighttpd would server as an excellent backend for an apache proxying frontent.

http://e.solarblue.net/index.php/2005/04/21/48/

darkcoder · 2005-04-22 21:22:22

IIS with FrontPage 2002 extensions on my Wimpy server, and Apache2 on Linux.

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