A young Russian developer named Igor Sysoev was frustrated by older web servers’ inability to handle more than 10 thousand concurrent requests. This is a problem referred to as the C10k problem. As an answer to this, he started working on a new web server back in 2002. NGINX was first released to the public […]

Lighttpd or Lighty is a free and open-source web server developed for high-performance environments. Lighttpd server is lightweight, high-speed, and secure. It is mainly provided as an alternative to web servers such as Apache because it consumes very few resources such as CPU and memory. Lighttpd can handle more than 10000 parallel connections on a […]

Lighttpd is an open source web server known for its excellent performance on many environments. Thanks to the low hardware requirements, it manages high data traffic even on poorly performing systems. This tutorial provides a step by step explanation of how to install and configure Lighttpd on Ubuntu 18.04 and on how to maximize its […]

lighttpd is a web server for UNIX/Linux and Windows operating systems. It is an alternative to Apache web server. It is also called Lighty. Advertisement It is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its […]

Lighttpd is a free, open-source, and high-performance web server designed for speed-critical environments. It is lightweight, secure, fast, and consumes very few resources compared to other web servers.  Lighttpd also supports FastCGI, CGI, Output-Compression, Auth and URL-Rewriting, which makes it the perfect web server. Lighttpd can handle up to 10000 connections in parallel on a […]

There is a web server that is very conservative in its resource usage and memory footprint. That server is known as lighttpd (pronounced ‘lighty’). Setting one lighttpd instance can be a bit tricky, so this tutorial serves as a clear guide on how to properly configure a lighttpd server on Linux. Understanding the configuration file for […]

Apache is one of the go-to web servers for website owners, developers, and even hosting providers, dominating the market share by 33% across all websites. In Hostinger, for instance, our hosting infrastructure runs on Litespeed, another popular web server. This particular setup greatly improves the strengths of both servers, allowing us to serve optimum performance […]

This articles contains information about the Apache HTTP server. 1. Apache HTTP The Apache HTTP server project develops and maintains an open-source HTTP server. The Apache HTTP web server is one of the most used web server worldwide. 1.1. Installation On Ubuntu you can install the Apache HTTP server with the following command. sudo apt-get […]

There are several types of web servers on the market and among them is Apache, one of the oldest servers Although new, more modern and efficient alternatives have emerged in recent years, Apache continues to be a reference server. Statistically, Apache covers 33.7% of the top 1000 sites, just behind Nginx with its 38.8% It […]

What is Apache? Apache is a remarkable piece of application software. It is the most widely used Web Server application in the world with more than 50% share in the commercial web server market. Apache is the most widely used Web Server application in Unix-like operating systems but can be used on almost all platforms […]