[ale] VPS or not

[James Sumners]

My Linode is the first time I really had a chance to give Lighttpd a
try. The documentation can be hard to find, and a bit sparse, but I'm
really loving it. The configuration is MUCH easier. It is not
difficult at all to setup some non-standard configurations. For
example, I am now using it to serve the web frontends to Subversion
and Mercurial on my department's VCS server. We don't want the code
generally browseable, so I have Lighty configured to do LDAP
authentication agains our Active Directory. Even further, we have
sub-departments and each sub-department's code is locked behind LDAP
authentication against specific DNs.

I also have a VM setup to handle the unavailable page for the web
portal I administer. This VM has 128MB of RAM allocated to it, is the
_only_ server serving the unavailable page, and is running Lighty.
There were some issues last week and I got a chance to watch this
server handle the load in real time. It was being hit constantly (the
access log did not stop scrolling via `tail -f`) and the whole time
the CPU was 99% idle.

Apache HTTPD has its uses, but I'm starting to think they aren't many.
Lighty rocks.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:06 PM, David Hillman <hillmands at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I usually use Apache, but Lighttpd looks interesting.



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James Sumners
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