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Daniel Friesen wrote:
For lighttpd vs. Apache. lighttpd is a lightweight webserver, and does have a real performance benefit over serving out images with bloated Apache.
We started using lighty to serve images in 2005: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/November_2005_image_server
Domas did a fair amount of benchmarking and testing on this over the months prior to the switch, including working with the author on some fixes, and it was a pretty clear winner at the time.
As for lighttpd vs. nginx... I believe the author of lighttpd actually had some contact with Wikimedia, perhaps a bit of changes were made to lighttpd or something for them... Dunno... So whether anyone else gos for lighttpd vs. nginx there's no relevant benefit of one over the other.
Well, to be honest I never heard of nginx before today. :)
- -- brion