Lighttpd more faster then Apache

 A lot of web server expert experience that Lighttpd are much more faster compare to Apache, also a lot of benchmark proof that Lighttpd able to handle more traffic for web server.

 LightTPD is a secure, flexible, and most importantly, light web server designed and optimized for high performance environments. It is open-source and licensed under the revised BSD license. Its event-driven architecture optimized for a large number of parallel connections, its advanced features (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output Compression, URL Rewriting, and many more), and its small memory footprint compared to other web servers, make LightTPD the perfect server software for every web server that suffers load problems or for serving static media separately from dynamic content.

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