lighttpd enters the Top5 4

Posted by jan Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:05:00 GMT

Netcraft reports:

This month the Web Server Survey adds public tracking of lighttpd, an open source server designed for high-performance sites that has been gaining popularity in recent months. Lighttpd is currently detected on 1.38 million sites for a 1.2% share of the web server market, well ahead of Zeus and moving up quickly on Sun. Lighttpd has a relatively small memory footprint and is optimized for a large number of parallel connections, which has made it popular on sites using applications based on AJAX or Ruby on Rails, or hosting environments for virtual private servers.

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With the release of 1.5.0 we aim for higher ranks and try to get ahead of Suns iplanet. You always need a goal: World Domination. :)

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  1. gregd Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:16:59 GMT
    Congratulations. When release 1.5 will be ready? I would like to port FdAjax module to that version but I have no idea if the 1.5 module API is stable enough.
  2. Tourist Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:45:35 GMT
    My congrats. Waiting for 1.5.0 release
  3. Jeff Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:54:43 GMT
    You're getting dugg too ;D http://digg.com/linux_unix/lighttpd_Fast_Secure_and_Flexible_Web_Server
  4. Jason Hoffman Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:02:00 GMT
    Congratulations Jan!
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