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Originally Posted by Big John
I tried google to start and it could simply have been me using crap search terms pre-firstcoffeeoftheday but it was tough to find comparisons.
Time to do as suggested then I think and simply play with it (ooer) for a while. As I say a clean server so as yet nothing can be affected by having either installed  |
As Toonpornblog suggested you can install it safely along 1.3 as long as you
don't try to have it listenening to the same port. It won't mess up anything
and you really should try it yourself instead of just listening to the advices of
others. As mentioned before it totally depends on what to want to accomplish
to find out which one is more suitable for you.
Lighttpd is great for running for example static galleries or bannerfarms. I
wouldn't use it for dynamic stuff even though it supports php and other
modules that would let you do that.
Always try to minimize the use of modules as much as possible. Apache's
architecture sucks when it comes to that. Every requests gets bucketed
through all the modules to determine if the request needs to get processed
by a module.....instead of only parsing it through a module when it really
needs to....The more modules you have installed the worse the perfomance
and the more resources it uses......and apache already has a HUGE memory
footprint.
If you don't change your apache once it's setup I suggest to compile it
statically instead of using DSO (only if you have enough ram in your server)
as the httpd binary is substantially bigger than a DSO compiled binary.
Static has all the modules compiled into 1 binary instead loading the modules
at every request.
(All good here Toonpornblog
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