  lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible. it was originally written by jan kneschke as a proof-of-concept of the c10k problem - how to handle 10,000 connections in parallel on one server,  but has gained worldwide popularity. ==premise== the low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), small cpu load and speed optimizationsgabriel kerneis and juliusz chroboczek. are events fast?. pps technical report, university of paris 7. 2009. http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/research/cpc-bench.pdf make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. lighttpd is free software/open source, and is distributed under the bsd license. it runs natively on unix-like operating systems as well as microsoft windows. ==application support== lighttpd supports the fastcgi, scgi and cgi interfaces to external programs, permitting web applications written in any programming language to be used with the server. as a particularly popular language, php performance has received special attention. lighttpd's fastcgi can be configured to support php with opcode caches (like apc) properly and efficiently. addit
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